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
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
Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even… — Jeremy Collier Ambition 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… — Jeremy Collier Atheism Copy Share Image
Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an… — Jeremy Collier Courses Copy Share Image
Dependence goes somewhat against the grain of a generous mind; and it is no wonder that it should do so, considering the… — Jeremy Collier Advantage Copy Share Image
Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation… — Jeremy Collier Character Copy Share Image
I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and… — Jeremy Collier Book 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
Modesty was designed by Providence as a guard to virtue, and that it might be always at hand it is wrought into… — Jeremy Collier Body 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 Contests 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
Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him… — Jeremy Collier Dangerous Copy Share Image
Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained,… — Jeremy Collier Envy Copy Share Image
True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. — Jeremy Collier Brave Copy Share Image
A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. — Jeremy Collier Book Copy Share Image
Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way. — Jeremy Collier Adversity Copy Share Image
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess. — Jeremy Collier Character Copy Share Image
By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way… — Jeremy Collier Age Copy Share Image
Those who despise fame seldom deserve it. We are apt to undervalue the purchase we cannot reach, to conceal our poverty the… — Jeremy Collier Breasts Copy Share Image
Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a… — Jeremy Collier Conceit Copy Share Image
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their… — Jeremy Collier Company Copy Share Image
Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life… — Jeremy Collier Business 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 Advantage Copy Share Image
Hope is a vigorous principle; it is furnished with light and heat to advise and execute; it sets the head and heart… — Jeremy Collier Advise Copy Share Image
The more we sink into the infirmities of age, the nearer we are to immortal youth. All people are young in the… — Jeremy Collier Abuse Copy Share Image
