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Daniel Defoe Quotes

Daniel Defoe quotes about time

English Journalist, Writer January 1, 1660 – April 24, 1731

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Diligence and Application have their due Encouragement, even in the remotest Parts of the World, and that no Case can be so low, so despicable, or so empty of Prospect, but that an unwearied Industry will go a great way to deliver us from it, will in time raise the meanest Creature to appear again in the World, and give him a new Case for his Life. Daniel Defoe
Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about : ... Daniel Defoe
...as this is ordinarily the fate of young heads, so reflection upon the folly of it, is as ordinarily the exercise of more years, or of the dear-bought experience of time.... Daniel Defoe
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
Daniel Defoe quote: "Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than..."
Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself. Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe quote: "Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than..."
Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself. Daniel Defoe

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