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Daniel Defoe Quotes

English - Journalist | 1660 - 1731

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.

Leadership Lion Better Army Sheep

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

Devil Sin Cheat Tis

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

Good Best Men Fate Die Early

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Thankful Spring Want Our About

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

Evil Poverty Worst Root Covetousness

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

Nature Men Blood Tyrants Left Would

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

Soul Brainy Body Will Never Diamond

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

Eyes Justice Man Party Innocent Own

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

Learning Women World Thought Country

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

Man Honest Necessity Honest Man

Pride the first peer and president of hell.

Pride Hell President First Peer

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

Door Always Vice Necessity Came

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