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Jeremy Collier
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Jeremy Collier
Age: 76 †
Born: 1650
Born: January 1
Died: 1726
Died: January 1
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County of Cambridge
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True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
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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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It were well if there were fewer heroes for I scarcely ever heard of any, excepting Hercules, but did more mischief than good. These overgrown mortals commonly use their will with their right hand and their reason with their left.
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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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Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.
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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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Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.
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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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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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The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.
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Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Modesty was designed by Providence as a guard to virtue, and that it might be always at hand it is wrought into the mechanism of the body. It is likewise proportioned to the occasions of life, and strongest in youth when passion is so too.
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