Jeremy Collier Quotes
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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
Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.
— Jeremy Collier
People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.
— Jeremy Collier
We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.
— Jeremy Collier
Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.
— Jeremy Collier
Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
— Jeremy Collier
Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.
— Jeremy Collier
There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.
— 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
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
Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.
— Jeremy Collier
Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.
— Jeremy Collier
It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.
— Jeremy Collier
The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.
— Jeremy Collier
A brave mind is always impregnable.
— Jeremy Collier
A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.
— Jeremy Collier
Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.
— Jeremy Collier
The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.
— Jeremy Collier
I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.
— 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
Heroes are a mischievous race.
— Jeremy Collier
Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.
— Jeremy Collier
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
Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
— Jeremy Collier
