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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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Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage.
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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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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, and the station assigned us?
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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 of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty, too. I would not despair unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity.
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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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Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
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True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
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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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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 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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The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the continuance.
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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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As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room
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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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Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.
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Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.
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Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.
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Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.
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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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