Jeremy Collier
Jeremy Collier
Jeremy Collierwas an English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
lying two envy
Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.
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.
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.
uplifting brave mind
True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
character looks flattery
Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service.
office support rewards
The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the continuance.
people opinion physiognomy
People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.
together would-be painting
He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together.
hero hands use
It were well if there were fewer heroes; for I scarcely ever heard of any, excepting Hercules, but did more mischief than good. These overgrown mortals commonly use their will with their right hand; and their reason with their left.
hero race mischievous
Heroes are a mischievous race.
lying land water
The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.
confidence ignorance self
Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.
fire water elements
Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.