The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
Daniel DefoeSource: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
wisdom
A selected quote by Daniel Defoe.
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
Related
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
The poetry of the earth is never dead
I think, therefore I am.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known
The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children