Modesty was designed by Providence as a guard to virtue, and that it might be always at hand it is wrought into… — Jeremy Collier 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
Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even… — Jeremy Collier 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 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 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 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
