Quote

The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.

Jeremy Collier

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Road
Lies
Land
Heaven
Lying
Water
Near

More quotes by Jeremy Collier

Image
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
Image
Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.
Jeremy Collier
Image
Heroes are a mischievous race.
Jeremy Collier
Image
Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.
Jeremy Collier
Image
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
Jeremy Collier
Image
There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.
Jeremy Collier
Image
Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
Jeremy Collier
Image
People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.
Jeremy Collier
Image
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
Jeremy Collier
Image
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
Image
A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.
Jeremy Collier
Image
True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
Jeremy Collier
Image
Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.
Jeremy Collier
Image
Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.
Jeremy Collier
Image
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.
Jeremy Collier
Image
Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.
Jeremy Collier
Image
Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
Jeremy Collier
Image
He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together.
Jeremy Collier
Image
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.
Jeremy Collier
Image
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