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. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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