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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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Solitude
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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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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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Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.
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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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Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.
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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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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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Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
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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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Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.
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Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.
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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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The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.
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People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.
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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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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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There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.
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Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.
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Heroes are a mischievous race.
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