# Quote — Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

> How frequently, 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.

- Author: [Daniel Defoe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-defoe.md)
- Book: [Robinson Crusoe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-defoe/robinson-crusoe.md)
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> I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth, to that reason which ought to guide them in such cases - viz. they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent. Not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which can only make them be esteemed wise men.

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> And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true sense of things, they will find deliverance from sin a much greater blessing than deliverance from affliction.

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> It is never too late to be wise.

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