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Mortimer Collins

(1827–1876) Writer United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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Mortimer Collins was a writer from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, best known for Pen sketches by a vanished hand.

Quick Facts About Mortimer Collins

Born: June 29, 1827
Died: July 28, 1876
Nationality: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Profession: Writer
Notable works: Pen sketches by a vanished hand
Spouse: Frances Collins

About Mortimer Collins

Edward James Mortimer Collins was an English novelist, journalist and poet. Some of his lyrics, with their "light grace, their sparkling wit and their airy philosophy", were described in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica as "equal to anything of their kind in modern English".

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Mortimer Collins

O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by…

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Deeds

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Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with…

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Church

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Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.

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Cures

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The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.

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Age

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There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to…

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Aim

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Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

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Disease

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There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb…

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Apes

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