Jeremy Collier
Jeremy Collier
Jeremy Collierwas an English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Jeremy Collier quotes about
idleness inlet people quickly tired
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
envy despair arms
Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.
sight envy wish
Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained, and the measure of happiness abated. It laments over prosperity, and sickens at the sight of health. It oftentimes wants spirit as well as good nature.
reading book men
A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.
tired people boredom
People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
hands mind crowds
As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room
singularity contrary distasteful
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.
teaching teach multitudes
Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.
hope heart men
Hope is a vigorous principle; it is furnished with light and heat to advise and execute; it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost. And thus, by perpetually pushing and assurance, it puts a difficulty out of countenance, and makes a seeming impossibility give way.
courage lying brave
True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. 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.
order argument reason
Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.
excess ingredients degenerates
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.
success passion expectations
He that would relish success to a purpose should keep his passions cool, and his expectations low; and then it is possible that his fortune might exceed his fancy; for an advantage always rises by surprise; and is almost always doubled by being unlooked for.
encouragement atheist thinking
What sun is there within us that shoots his rays with so sudden a vigor? To see the soul flash in the face at this rate one would think would convert an atheist. By the way, we may observe that smiles are much more becoming than frowns. This seems a natural encouragement to good-humor; as much as to say, if people have a mind to be handsome, they must not be peevish and untoward.