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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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Jeremy Collier
Age: 76 †
Born: 1650
Born: January 1
Died: 1726
Died: January 1
Literary Critic
Priest
Theatre Critic
Writer
County of Cambridge
Impossible
Strangled
Business
Feasible
Many
Despondency
Believe
Cowardly
Way
Anticipation
Make
Projects
Birth
Imagination

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