Quotes by Jeremy Collier

Jeremy Collier

A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body.

Expression

Giving

Men

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

Book

Men

Reading

A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings of life, and swagger away his own enjoyments; and not to enlarge upon not folly, not to mention the injustice of such a behavior, it is always the sign of a little, unbenevolent temper. It is disease and discredit all over, and there is no more greatness in it, than in the swelling of a dropsy.

Blessing

Greatness

Men

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

Crowds

Hands

Mind

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.

Ignorance

Pride

Strong

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.

Contrary

Distasteful

Singularity

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

Age

Book

Entertainment

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 to forget the crossness of men and things, compose our cares and our passions, and lay our disappointments asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride or design in their conversation.

Book

Disappointment

Passion

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

Book

Solitude

Support

By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one’s nativity is better than Plato’s pre-existence.

Plato

Reading

Running

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Confidence

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Death

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Quotes by Jeremy Collier

Jeremy Collier

A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body.

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

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

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.

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.

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one’s nativity is better than Plato’s pre-existence.

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