Avoid all affectation and singularity. What is according to nature is best, and what is contrary to it is always distasteful. Nothing is graceful that is not our own. Jeremy Collier More Quotes by Jeremy Collier More Quotes From Jeremy Collier Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. Jeremy Collier learningmondayinspirational Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. Jeremy Collier supportsolitudebook Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped. Jeremy Collier sufferingmindrivers Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property. Jeremy Collier strongprideignorance A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Jeremy Collier readingmenbook People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. Jeremy Collier boredomtiredpeople The more we sink into the infirmities of age, the nearer we are to immortal youth. All people are young in the other world. That state is an eternal spring, ever fresh and flourishing. Now, to pass from midnight into noon on the sudden, to be decrepit one minute and all spirit and activity the next, must be a desirable change. To call this dying is an abuse of language. Jeremy Collier other-worldsspringdeath Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. They help us to forget the crossness of men and things, compose our cares and our passions, and lay our disappointments asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride or design in their conversation. Jeremy Collier passiondisappointmentbook 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. Jeremy Collier vanitystronglying Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation. Jeremy Collier luxurypassionambition Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person. Jeremy Collier vanityimaginationmen Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair. Jeremy Collier envyarmsdespair 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. Jeremy Collier imaginationbelieveway 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 paintingwould-betogether Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery. Jeremy Collier confidenceignoranceself Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element. Jeremy Collier elementsfirewater Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. The pain abates his vigor and takes up too much of his attention. Jeremy Collier painfightingmen Not that the moderns are born with more wit than their predecessors, but, finding the world better furnished at their coming into it, they have more leisure for new thoughts, more light to direct them, and more hints to work upon. Jeremy Collier hintslightculture Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty, too. I would not despair unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity. Jeremy Collier honestymeanbook I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by neces-sity. Jeremy Collier despairfatebook
