Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained, and the measure of happiness abated. It laments over prosperity, and sickens at the sight of health. It… — Jeremy Collier 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 plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property. — 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 Image
True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. — Jeremy Collier 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 a defect… — 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 strangled in… — Jeremy Collier 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 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 of life,… — Jeremy Collier 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 is constantly… — Jeremy Collier 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 face at… — Jeremy Collier 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
We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
