Jeremy Collier
Jeremy Collier
Jeremy Collierwas an English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
pain fighting men
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.
light culture hints
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.
honesty book mean
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.
tired people boredom
People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
book support solitude
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
reading book men
A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.
strong ignorance pride
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.
monday great-success please
Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
birth coward-and-cowardice cowardly feasible projects strangled
How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
acting almost civilized constantly depends existence fellow happiness indeed opinion studied
In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.