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Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
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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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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Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.
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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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Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
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People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.
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Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.
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Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.
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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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The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.
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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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