Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery. — Jeremy Collier 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
Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way. — Jeremy Collier 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 our nature,… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share
True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share
Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share
To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share
A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings of life,… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share
In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share
What sun is there within us that shoots his rays with so sudden a vigor? To see the soul flash in the face at… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share
Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share
We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share
Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share
Avoid all affectation and singularity. What is according to nature is best, and what is contrary to it is always distasteful. Nothing is graceful… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share
