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.
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, swel… - Jeremy Collier
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, swel…
- Jeremy Collier
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 … - Jeremy Collier
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 …
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 … - Jeremy Collier
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 …
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. - Jeremy Collier
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. - Jeremy Collier
Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in thei… - Jeremy Collier
To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in thei…
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 cor… - Jeremy Collier
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 cor…
A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. - Jeremy Collier
A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.
True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. - Jeremy Collier
True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
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