Daniel Defoe Quotes

“I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.”
― Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

“There are some secret moving Springs in the Affections, which when they are set a going by some Object in View, or be it some Object, tho’ not in View, yet render’d present to the Mind by the Power of Imagination, that Motion carries out the Soul by its Impetuosity to such violent eager Embracings of the Object, that the Absence of it is insupportable.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

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― Daniel Keyes

“we resolve to spend the Remainder of our Years in sincere Penitence, for the wicked Lives we have lived.”
― Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders