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Daniel Defoe war ein englischer Schriftsteller in der Frühzeit der Aufklärung, der durch seinen Roman Robinson Crusoe weltberühmt wurde. Defoe gilt damit als einer der Begründer des englischen Romans. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. September 1660 – 24. April 1731
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„…werdet lieber etwas anderes, sogar eine alte Jungfer, der Natur schlimmster Fluch, als euch mit einem Narren zusammenzutun.“

Roxana. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Lore Krüger (1914-2009). 1. Aufl. Berlin, Weimar: Aufbau-Verlag, 1977. S. 12
"'No fool, ladies, at all, no kind of fool, whether a mad fool or a sober fool, a wise fool or a silly fool; take anything but a fool; nay, be anything, be even an old maid, the worst of nature's curses, rather than take up with a fool.'" - The Life of Roxana - en.wikisource

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Daniel Defoe: Zitate auf Englisch

“From this amphibious ill-born mob began
That vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman.”

Pt. I, l. 132.
The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)

“It is never too late to be wise.”

Daniel Defoe La vie et les aventures de Robinson Crusoe

Quelle: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 12, A Cave Retreat.

“Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”

Daniel Defoe La vie et les aventures de Robinson Crusoe

Variante: Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
Quelle: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 11, Finds Print of Man's Foot on the Sand.

“Great families of yesterday we show,
And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.”

Pt. I, l. 374.
The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)

“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.”

The Life and Adventures of http://books.google.com/books?id=IZ9CAAAAYAAJ&q=%22better+to+have+a+Lyon+at+the+Head%22+%22an+Army+of+Sheep+than+a+Sheep+at+the+Head%22+%22an+Army+of+Lyons%22&pg=PA33#v=onepage Mrs. Christian Davies (1741)

“Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have.”

Daniel Defoe La vie et les aventures de Robinson Crusoe

Quelle: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 9, A Boat.
Kontext: 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.

“Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.”

Daniel Defoe La vie et les aventures de Robinson Crusoe

Quelle: Robinson Crusoe

“For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.”

Daniel Defoe La vie et les aventures de Robinson Crusoe

Quelle: Robinson Crusoe

“Misfortunes seldom come alone.”

Daniel Defoe buch Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress

Roxana

“Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes
Lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes;
Antiquity and birth are needless here;
‘Tis impudence and money makes a peer.”

Pt. I, l. 360-363.
The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)

“My man Friday.”

First appears in Ch. 14, A Dream Realized.
Robinson Crusoe (1719)

“And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed,
Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.”

Pt. II, l. 299.
The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)

“Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The Devil always builds a chapel there;
And 'twill be found, upon examination,
The latter has the largest congregation.”

Pt. I, l. 1. Compare: "Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii, section 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 1.
The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)

“Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!”

Daniel Defoe buch The Shortest Way with the Dissenters

The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702).

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