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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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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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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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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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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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Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
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Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.
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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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Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.
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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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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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Heroes are a mischievous race.
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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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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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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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Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.
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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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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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Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.
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The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.
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