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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
Literary Critic
Priest
Theatre Critic
Writer
County of Cambridge
Great
Fair
Please
Learning
Turn
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Opportunity
Pleases
Everyone
Monday
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Heroes are a mischievous race.
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Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.
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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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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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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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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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Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.
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Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.
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Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.
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True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
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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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People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.
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The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.
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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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Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
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Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
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