True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. — Jeremy Collier Brave Copy Share Image
Avoid all affectation and singularity. What is according to nature is best, and what is contrary to it is always distasteful. Nothing… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Goodness is generous and diffusive; it is largeness of mind, and sweetness of temper,--balsam in the blood, and justice sublimated to a… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Dependence goes somewhat against the grain of a generous mind; and it is no wonder that it should do so, considering the… — Jeremy Collier Advantage Copy Share Image
The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action,… — Jeremy Collier Action Copy Share Image
Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the… — Jeremy Collier Atheism Copy Share Image
Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even… — Jeremy Collier Ambition Copy Share Image
A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer… — Jeremy Collier Body Copy Share Image
Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation… — Jeremy Collier Character Copy Share Image
True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. Resolution lies more in the head than in the… — Jeremy Collier Brave Copy Share Image
A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings… — Jeremy Collier Arrogance Copy Share Image
Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions,… — Jeremy Collier Bargains Copy Share Image
Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of… — Jeremy Collier Conscience Copy Share Image
What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Not that the moderns are born with more wit than their predecessors, but, finding the world better furnished at their coming into… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
It were well if there were fewer heroes; for I scarcely ever heard of any, excepting Hercules, but did more mischief than… — Jeremy Collier Death Copy Share Image
Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery. — Jeremy Collier Assurance Copy Share Image
Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. The pain abates… — Jeremy Collier Attention Copy Share Image
Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a… — Jeremy Collier Conceit Copy Share Image
As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business… — Jeremy Collier Body Copy Share Image
Vanity is a strong temptation to lying; it makes people magnify their merit, over flourish their family, and tell strange stories of… — Jeremy Collier Acquaintance Copy Share Image
By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way… — Jeremy Collier Age Copy Share Image
He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Those who despise fame seldom deserve it. We are apt to undervalue the purchase we cannot reach, to conceal our poverty the… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
