文档介绍：Quotes by Daniel Defoe
---To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear.
Source: Robinson Crusoe
---Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
Source: Robinson Crusoe
---As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is, I believe, the worst of all snares.
Source: Moll Flanders
---The vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
Source: Moll Flanders
---All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.
Source: Robinson Crusoe
---The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the lustre of it will never appear.
Source: An Essay upon Projects
---Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
Source: Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe  
---In trouble to be troubled is to have your trouble doubled.
Source: The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
---And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
Source: The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
--- The height of human wisdom was to bring our tempers down to our circumstances; and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.
Source: Robinson Crusoe  
---Nature has left this tincture in the blood, that all men would be tyrants if they could.
Source: The History of the Kentish Petition  
---Pride, the first peer, and president of Hell.
Source: The True-Born Englishman: A Satire
Daniel Defoe
I. Brief Introduction to the Writer
1. Life Story
Defoe is the first important novelist and a versatile writer. He was born in London in 1660. His father was a London butcher. He was sent to one of the best Dissenting academies and received a very good education there. His father had wished him to be a clergyman, but he was interested in business. After schooling, he became a hosier. He traveled in Spain, Italy, France and Ger