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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

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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
Humans
Band
Promises
Without
Security
Union
Virtue
Basis
Happiness
Unions
Upon
Bases
Language
Confidence
Oaths
Truth
Friendship
Oath
Human
Promise
Reliance

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The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.
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Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.
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Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
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As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room
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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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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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