These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all its hardships and misfortunes ; and this part also I cannot but recommend to the reflection of those who are apt, in their misery, to say, Is any affliction like mine? Let them consider how much worse the cases of some people are, and their case might have been, if Providence had thought fit.
Daniel DefoeStichwörter: inspirational
This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.
Daniel DefoeStichwörter: inspirational
I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed, rather than what I wanted : and this gave me sometimes such secret comforts, that I cannot express them ; and which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them, because they see and covet something that he has not given them. All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
Daniel DefoeStichwörter: inspirational
All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.
Daniel DefoeStichwörter: inspirational
I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.
Daniel DefoeStichwörter: inspirational
I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.
Daniel DefoeStichwörter: classics daniel-defoe moll-flanders
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.
Daniel DefoeHe 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 DefoeStichwörter: suicide
I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.
Daniel DefoeThus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
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