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

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Jeremy Collier
Age: 76 †
Born: 1650
Born: January 1
Died: 1726
Died: January 1
Literary Critic
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Theatre Critic
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County of Cambridge
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Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness but envy gets no reward but vexation.
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Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.
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People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.
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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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The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.
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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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Emulation is a handsome passion it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others.
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Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.
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Heroes are a mischievous race.
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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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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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True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
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Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
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A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body.
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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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Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.
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Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.
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Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.
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Vanity is a strong temptation to lying it makes people magnify their merit, over flourish their family, and tell strange stories of their interest and acquaintance.
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There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.
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