The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.
—Daniel Defoe
Topics: Wisdom
Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
—Daniel Defoe
Topics: Self-Discovery
He that opposes his own judgment against the consent of the times ought to be backed with unanswerable truths; and he that has truth on his side is a fool, as well as a coward, if he is afraid to own it because of other men’s opinions.
—Daniel Defoe
Topics: Truth
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