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A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.
Jeremy Collier
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Jeremy Collier
Age: 76 †
Born: 1650
Born: January 1
Died: 1726
Died: January 1
Literary Critic
Priest
Theatre Critic
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County of Cambridge
May
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Wiser
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Expect
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Stronger
Always
Eating
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Reading
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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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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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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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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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Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.
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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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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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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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People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.
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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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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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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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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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The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.
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Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.
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Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.
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Heroes are a mischievous race.
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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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