Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.
Jeremy Collier
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jeremy Collier
Age: 76 †
Born: 1650
Born: January 1
Died: 1726
Died: January 1
Literary Critic
Priest
Theatre Critic
Writer
County of Cambridge
Patient
Highest
Waiting
Often
Way
Patience
More quotes by Jeremy Collier
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.
Jeremy Collier
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.
Jeremy Collier
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.
Jeremy Collier
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.
Jeremy Collier
Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
Jeremy Collier
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.
Jeremy Collier
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.
Jeremy Collier
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
Jeremy Collier
Heroes are a mischievous race.
Jeremy Collier
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.
Jeremy Collier
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
Jeremy Collier
A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body.
Jeremy Collier
People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.
Jeremy Collier
There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.
Jeremy Collier
True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
Jeremy Collier
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.
Jeremy Collier
Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.
Jeremy Collier
A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.
Jeremy Collier
The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.
Jeremy Collier
The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.
Jeremy Collier
