Daniel Defoe Quotes About Evil
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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.
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.
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No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.
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In the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into.
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