1. It is useless for a person to just sit blankly and dream about what he cannot get.

2. We always feel that we lack something and are not satisfied because we lack gratitude for what we have already received.

3. It can be seen that we ordinary people will not be able to understand the benefits of the original environment unless we see a worse environment with our own eyes; if we have to be at the end of our rope, we will not know how to cherish what we originally enjoyed. .

4. How do people’s emotions change under different circumstances? What we love today is often what we will hate tomorrow; what we pursue today is often what we will avoid tomorrow; what we hope for today is often what we fear tomorrow, and even make us tremble with fear.

5. The most effective way for a person to educate others is to educate himself first.

Extended information

Daniel Defoe’s thought is usually expressed as the religious value consciousness of the emerging bourgeoisie in Europe. It reflects the influence of Protestant ethical values ??and shows the ideology of capitalist expansion. conflict with conservative religious and ethical ideologies. Daniel Defoe and his protagonists have an ambivalent attitude towards Western religious issues and they try to find explanations, to find a religion that is consistent with their own desires and actions.

But he could not get rid of the shackles of deep-rooted religion. Therefore, Daniel Defoe showed contradictory and confused mentality and desires. In essence, Daniel Defoe has always had a pragmatic attitude, which runs through the Protestant ethics he believes in and reflects his religious thoughts.

He used religion to meet the needs of the bourgeoisie for understanding and self-development. This only expressed the idea that people created religion, not that religion created people. This reflects that the businessman under Puritanism and his inner world are full of contradictions.