Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances. — Jeremy Collier 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
Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment. — Jeremy Collier Affection Copy Share Image
People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. — Jeremy Collier Business Copy Share Image
True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. — Jeremy Collier Brave Copy Share Image
Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. — Jeremy Collier Brave 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
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
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
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
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
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 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 Copy Share Image
Not that the moderns are born with more wit than their predecessors, but, finding the world better furnished at their coming into… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no… — 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 Bargains 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
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
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
Hope is a vigorous principle; it is furnished with light and heat to advise and execute; it sets the head and heart… — Jeremy Collier 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
Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a… — Jeremy Collier Age 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
People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. — Jeremy Collier Boredom Copy Share Image
It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse. — Jeremy Collier 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
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess. — Jeremy Collier Character 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
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. — Jeremy Collier Books Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom. — Jeremy Collier Consequence Copy Share Image
We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will. — Jeremy Collier God 's will Copy Share Image
