Jeremy Collier
Jeremy Collier
Jeremy Collierwas an English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
blood justice mind
Goodness is generous and diffusive; it is largeness of mind, and sweetness of temper,--balsam in the blood, and justice sublimated to a richer spirit.
men vanity imagination
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.
giving way pushing
Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
believe imagination way
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.
giving sobriety satisfaction
Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, and secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business.
men expression giving
A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body.
thinking giving imperfection
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
lying land water
The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.
people opinion physiognomy
People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.
lying two envy
Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.