Daniel Defoe Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: September 13, 1660 - April 24, 1731
Birthday: September 13
Death: April 24
As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I must go and leave the happy View I had of being a rich and thriving Man in my new Plantation, only to pursue a rash and immoderate Desire of rising faster than the Nature of the Thing admitted; and thus I cast my self down again into the deepest Gulph of human Misery that ever Man fell into, or perhaps could be consistent with Life and a State of Health in the World.
topic: Men, Self, Views, Breaking Away
