Jeremy Collier Quotes
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People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
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The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.
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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,…
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Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
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Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.
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Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from becoming a burden to ourselves.…
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There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.
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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 their…
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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.
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Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
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Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.
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We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.
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Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.
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As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and…
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Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.
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Hope is a vigorous principle; it is furnished with light and heat to advise and execute; it sets the head and heart to work, and…
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Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
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A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.
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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 acting…
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