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“It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Leadership #Army #Sheep
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“It is never too late to be wise.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Wise #Too Late #Being Wise
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“'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Cheating #Devil #Sin
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“I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Clouds #Storm #Saws
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“Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Fear #Danger #Thousand
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“All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Thank You #Spring #Thankfulness
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“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Soul #Lust #Literature
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“Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Self Esteem #Self Destruction #Cowardice
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“I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Inspirational #People #Empathy
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“Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Party #Eye #Men
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“For I cannot think that GOD Almighty ever made them [women] so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and so delightful to mankind; with souls capable of the same accomplishments with men: and all, to be only Stewards of our Houses, Cooks, and Slaves.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Men #Thinking #House
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“It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Men #Feet #One Day
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“He that opposes his own judgment against the consent of the times ought to be backed with unanswerable truths; and he that has truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because of other men's opinions.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Coward #Fool #Opinion
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“Law is but a heathen word for power.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Power #Heathen
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“Pleasure is a thief to business.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Thieves #Pleasure
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“All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Evil
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“I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Children #Distance #Sea
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“He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that they who talk of such things never do them.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Believe #Looks #Littles
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“I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Giving #Accounts
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“Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Redemption #Affliction #Sin
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“Never, ladies, marry a fool. Any husband rather than a fool. With some other husband you may be unhappy, but with a fool you will be miserable.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Husband #Unhappy #May
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“Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Village #England
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“Avery fine city; the four principal streets are the fairest for breadth, and the finest built that I have ever seen in one city together? In a word,'tis the cleanest and beautifullest, and best built city in Britain, London excepted.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Cities #Together #Four
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“I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Eye #Secret #Destruction
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“These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all its hardships and misfortunes ; and this part also I cannot but recommend to the reflection of those who are apt, in their misery, to say, Is any affliction like mine? Let them consider how much worse the cases of some people are, and their case might have been, if Providence had thought fit.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Reflection #People #Hardship
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“I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed, rather than what I wanted : and this gave me sometimes such secret comforts, that I cannot express them ; and which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them, because they see and covet something that he has not given them. All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Spring #Dark #People
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“And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Blessing #Add #Hints
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“Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Expect Nothing
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“Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Men #Strange #Should
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“He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because fo other mens's opinions.”
-- Daniel Defoe
#Coward #Fool #Sides
