Jeremy Collier Quotes

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

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  Inspirational, Monday, Learning

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• Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property.

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  Strong, Ignorance, Pride

  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.5

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• A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

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  Book, Reading, Men

  Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”

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• Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

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  Book, Support, Solitude

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• Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. They help us to forget the crossness of men and things, compose our cares and our passions, and lay our disappointments asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride or design in their conversation.

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  Disappointment, Book, Passion

  "Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects".

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• Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.

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  Rivers, Mind, Suffering

  Jeremy Collier (1969). “Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: (1698-1709).”

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

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  Uplifting, Courage, Brave

  "Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects".

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• Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

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  Excess, Ingredients, Degenerates

  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.101

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• The more we sink into the infirmities of age, the nearer we are to immortal youth. All people are young in the other world. That state is an eternal spring, ever fresh and flourishing. Now, to pass from midnight into noon on the sudden, to be decrepit one minute and all spirit and activity the next, must be a desirable change. To call this dying is an abuse of language.

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  Death, Spring, Other Worlds

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• He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together.

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  Together, Would Be, Painting

  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.74

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• Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.

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  Body, Leisure, Retribution

  Jeremy Collier (1720). “Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: Part III. ... By Jeremy Collier, M.A.”, p.31

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• Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions, to disadvantages in fortune; makes them discover secrets, drive foolish bargains, engage in play, and often to stagger from the tavern to the stews.

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  Passion, Play, People

  Jeremy Collier (1728). “Essays upon several moral subjects”, p.161

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• Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service.

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  Character, Looks, Flattery

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• Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

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  Teaching, Teach, Multitudes

  Jeremy Collier (1722). “Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: In Two Parts. ...”

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• People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.

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  People, Opinion, Countenance

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• The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.

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  Lying, Land, Water

  Jeremy Collier (1852). “An ecclesiastical history of Great Britain”, p.241

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

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  Addiction, Abuse, Use

  Jeremy Collier (1698). “A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage; Together with the Sense of Antiquity Upon this Argument. 2. Ed”, p.5

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• People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

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  Tired, People, Boredom

  "Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects".

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• Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person.

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  Men, Vanity, Imagination

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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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  Envy, Despair, Arms

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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 their birth by a cowardly imagination.

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  Believe, Imagination, Way

  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.30

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• Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained, and the measure of happiness abated. It laments over prosperity, and sickens at the sight of health. It oftentimes wants spirit as well as good nature.

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  Sight, Envy, Wish

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• Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

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  Giving, Way, Pushing

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• Those who despise fame seldom deserve it. We are apt to undervalue the purchase we cannot reach, to conceal our poverty the better. It is a spark which kindles upon the best fuel, and burns brightest in the bravest breast.

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  Fuel, Sparks, Poverty

  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.40

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• He that would relish success to a purpose should keep his passions cool, and his expectations low; and then it is possible that his fortune might exceed his fancy; for an advantage always rises by surprise; and is almost always doubled by being unlooked for.

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  Success, Passion, Expectations

  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.117

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