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Daniel Defoe Quotes

Brief author info: Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) Born Daniel Foe. English novelist, pamphleteer, journalist, political agent.

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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

Daniel Defoe

I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.

Daniel Defoe

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

Daniel Defoe

We loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake.

Daniel Defoe

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

Daniel Defoe

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It is not that you become soft [from illness] so much as that the world you live in expands and your awareness of it is enormously enlarged.

- Norman Washington Manley

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Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

- Albert Einstein

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I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.

- Woody Allen

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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

- Phyllis Diller

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To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy.

- Sun Yat-sen

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