Jeremy Collier Quotes
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Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.
[Patience]
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People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
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Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance, and make a seeming impossibility give way.
[Perseverance]
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Power, unless managed with gentleness and discretion, does but make a man the more hated; no intervals of good humor, no starts of bounty, will atone for tyranny and oppression.
[Tyranny]
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Prudence is the necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.
[Prudence]
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Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed, and argument put in order.
[Rhetoric]
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Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage.
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Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business.
[Temperance]
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The arrogant man does but blast the blessings of life and swagger away his own enjoyments. - To say nothing of the folly and injustice of such behavior, it is always the sign of a little and unbenevolent temper, having no more greatness in it than the swelling of the dropsy.
[Arrogance]
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The lower your senses are kept, the better you may govern them. - Appetite and reason are like two buckets - when one is up, the other is down. - Of the two, I would rather have the reason-bucket uppermost.
[Appetite]
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There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.
[Reason]
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Those who come last enter with advantage - They are born to the wealth of antiquity. - The materials for judging are prepared, and the foundations of knowledge are laid to their hands. - Besides, if the point was tried by antiquity, antiquity would lose it, for the present age is really the oldest, and has the largest experience to plead.
[Knowledge]
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Those who despise fame seldom deserve it. - We are apt to undervalue the purchase we cannot reach, to conceal our poverty the better. - It is a spark that kindles upon the best fuel, and bums brightest in the bravest breast.
[Fame]
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To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. - How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
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True courage is the result of reasoning. - Resolution lies more in the head than in the veins; and a just sense of honor and of infamy, of duty and of religion, will carry us farther than all the force of mechanism.
[Courage]
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Vanity is a strong temptation to lying; it makes people magnify their merit, over-flourish their family, and tell strange stories of their interest and acquaintance.
[Vanity]
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We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.
[Truth]
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