Famous Quotes / Daniel Defoe
8 Quotations by Daniel Defoe
- 1. All good things of this world are no further good than as they are of use; and whatever we may heap ...
- 2. And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
- 3. I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the in ...
- 4. Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
- 5. Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
- 6. Pride the first peer and president of hell.
- 7. Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth ...
- 8. When kings the sword of justice first lay down;
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