How tedious is time, when his wings are loaded with expectation! — Mary Collyer Expectations Copy Share Image
I am strangely addicted to the writing of long letters, which, I am afraid, tire you; and for the future, I believe,… — Mary Collyer Believe Copy Share Image
Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions. — Mary Collyer Character Copy Share Image
Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions; it is the order, the symmetry, the interior beauty of… — Mary Collyer Character Copy Share Image
swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the… — Mary Collyer Blockheads Copy Share Image
I am to consider the many advantages arising from a frequent use of oaths, curses, and imprecations. In the first place, this… — Mary Collyer Accomplishment Copy Share Image
Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end. — Mary Collyer Answers Copy Share Image
Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray… — Mary Collyer Age Copy Share Image
The most savage and voracious animal never kills to increase his wealth, or open a way to grandeur. It slays to satisfy… — Mary Collyer Animal Copy Share Image
... those, who from an immoderate and false self-love, study to keep their humanity under, always take care, for their own sakes,… — Mary Collyer Care Copy Share Image
