Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess. — Jeremy Collier Character Copy Share Image
There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency. — Jeremy Collier Certainty Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order. — Jeremy Collier Argument Copy Share Image
It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will. — Jeremy Collier God 's will Copy Share Image
We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom. — Jeremy Collier Consequence Copy Share Image
Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Modesty was designed by Providence as a guard to virtue, and that it might be always at hand it is wrought into… — Jeremy Collier Body Copy Share Image
Thoughts take up no room. When they are right, they afford a portable pleasure, which one may travel with, without any trouble… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and… — Jeremy Collier Book Copy Share Image
In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He… — Jeremy Collier Acting Copy Share Image
Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their… — Jeremy Collier Company Copy Share Image
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty. — Jeremy Collier Conviction Copy Share Image
He that would relish success to a purpose should keep his passions cool, and his expectations low; and then it is possible… — Jeremy Collier Advantage Copy Share Image
What sun is there within us that shoots his rays with so sudden a vigor? To see the soul flash in the… — Jeremy Collier Atheist Copy Share Image
Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a… — Jeremy Collier Age Copy Share Image
Hope is a vigorous principle; it is furnished with light and heat to advise and execute; it sets the head and heart… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
The more we sink into the infirmities of age, the nearer we are to immortal youth. All people are young in the… — Jeremy Collier Abuse Copy Share Image
Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained,… — Jeremy Collier Envy Copy Share Image
Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life… — Jeremy Collier Business Copy Share Image
Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way. — Jeremy Collier Adversity Copy Share Image
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. — Jeremy Collier Books Copy Share Image
People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. — Jeremy Collier Business Copy Share Image
Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment. — Jeremy Collier Affection Copy Share Image
Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. — Jeremy Collier Book Copy Share Image
People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. — Jeremy Collier Boredom Copy Share Image
Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. — Jeremy Collier Brave Copy Share Image
Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
