Comprehensive Quote by Jeremy Collier

What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature,…

— Jeremy Collier

The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.

— Jeremy Collier

True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

— Jeremy Collier

Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect…

— Jeremy Collier

To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in…

— Jeremy Collier

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

— Jeremy Collier

A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings of life,…

— Jeremy Collier

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly…

— Jeremy Collier

What sun is there within us that shoots his rays with so sudden a vigor? To see the soul flash in the face at…

— Jeremy Collier

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

— Jeremy Collier

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

— Jeremy Collier

We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.

— Jeremy Collier