Company Quote by Jeremy Collier

“Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.”

Jeremy Collier

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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