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> [There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-collier/there-are-few-things-reason-can-discover-with-so-much-certainty-and/)

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## More by Jeremy Collier

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-collier/what-can-be-more-honorable-than-to-have-courage-enough-to-execute-the/)

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> [The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-collier/the-abuse-of-a-thing-is-no-argument-against-the-use-of-it/)

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> [True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-collier/true-courage-is-the-result-of-reasoning-a-brave-mind-is-always/)

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> [Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-collier/despair-makes-a-despicable-figure-and-descends-from-a-mean-original/)

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> [To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-collier/to-believe-a-business-impossible-is-the-way-to-make-it-so-how-many/)

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> [Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-collier/learning-gives-us-a-fuller-conviction-of-the-imperfections-of-our/)

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> [A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings of life,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-collier/a-man-that-loves-to-be-peevish-and-paramount-and-to-play-the/)

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> [In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-collier/in-civilized-life-where-the-happiness-and-indeed-almost-the-existence-2/)

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> [What sun is there within us that shoots his rays with so sudden a vigor? To see the soul flash in the face at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-collier/what-sun-is-there-within-us-that-shoots-his-rays-with-so-sudden-a/)

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> [Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-collier/everyone-has-a-fair-turn-to-be-as-great-as-he-pleases/)

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> [Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-collier/envy-like-a-cold-prison-benumbs-and-stupefies-and-conscious-of-its/)

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> [We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-collier/we-must-not-let-go-manifest-truths-because-we-cannot-answer-all/)

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> [Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-collier/conscience-and-covetousness-are-never-to-be-reconciled-like-fire-and/)

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> [Avoid all affectation and singularity. What is according to nature is best, and what is contrary to it is always distasteful. Nothing is graceful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-collier/avoid-all-affectation-and-singularity-what-is-according-to-nature-is/)

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> [A brave mind is always impregnable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-collier/a-brave-mind-is-always-impregnable/)

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