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Jeremy Collier quotes: Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.

Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.

Jeremy Collier quotes: Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.

Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.

Jeremy Collier quotes: People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.

People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.

Jeremy Collier quotes: We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.

We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.

Jeremy Collier quotes: Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

Jeremy Collier quotes: Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

Jeremy Collier quotes: Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.

Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.

Jeremy Collier quotes: There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.

There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.

Jeremy Collier quotes: Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

Jeremy Collier quotes: Thoughts take up no room. When they are right, they afford a portable pleasure, which one may travel with, without any trouble or encumbrance.

Thoughts take up no room. When they are right, they afford a portable pleasure, which one may travel with, without any trouble or encumbrance.

Jeremy Collier quotes: Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.

Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.

Jeremy Collier quotes: Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

Jeremy Collier quotes: Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.

Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.

Jeremy Collier quotes: It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.

It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.

Jeremy Collier quotes: The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.

The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.

Jeremy Collier quotes: A brave mind is always impregnable.

A brave mind is always impregnable.

Jeremy Collier quotes: A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

Jeremy Collier quotes: People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Jeremy Collier quotes: Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Jeremy Collier quotes: Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

Jeremy Collier quotes: The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.

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

Jeremy Collier quotes: I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

Jeremy Collier quotes: A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body.

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 quotes: True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Jeremy Collier quotes: Heroes are a mischievous race.

Heroes are a mischievous race.

Jeremy Collier quotes: Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.

Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.

Jeremy Collier quotes: Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

Jeremy Collier quotes: He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together.

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 quotes: Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

Jeremy Collier quotes: Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.