What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of… — Jeremy Collier Command Copy Share Image
True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. — Jeremy Collier Brave 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… — Jeremy Collier Arguing 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… — Jeremy Collier Anticipation 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 Conviction 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… — Jeremy Collier Arrogance 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… — Jeremy Collier Acting 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… — Jeremy Collier Atheist Copy Share Image
Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. — Jeremy Collier Inspirational Copy Share Image
Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair. — Jeremy Collier Arms Copy Share Image
We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them. — Jeremy Collier Answers Copy Share Image
Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of… — Jeremy Collier Conscience Copy Share Image
Avoid all affectation and singularity. What is according to nature is best, and what is contrary to it is always distasteful. Nothing… — Jeremy Collier Contrary Copy Share Image
It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse. — Jeremy Collier Difficult Copy Share Image
True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. Resolution lies more in the head than in the… — Jeremy Collier Brave Copy Share Image
The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action,… — Jeremy Collier Action Copy Share Image
It were well if there were fewer heroes; for I scarcely ever heard of any, excepting Hercules, but did more mischief than… — Jeremy Collier Death Copy Share Image
Thoughts take up no room. When they are right, they afford a portable pleasure, which one may travel with, without any trouble… — Jeremy Collier May Copy Share Image
He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience… — Jeremy Collier Copies Copy Share Image
Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. The pain abates… — Jeremy Collier Attention Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order. — Jeremy Collier Argument Copy Share Image
There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency. — Jeremy Collier Certainty Copy Share Image
Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery. — Jeremy Collier Assurance Copy Share Image
