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Jeremy Collier (23 September 1650 – 26 April 1726) was an English bishop and theatre critic.
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“Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.”
“People's opinions of themselves are commonly legible in their countenances.”
“Envy […], like a cold poison, […] benumbs and stupefies. And thus conscious as it were of its own impotence, it folds its arms in despair, and sits cursing in a corner.”
“To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried by despondency, and been strangled in the birth by a cowardly imagination?”
“A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. Too much over-charges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and gives health and vigour to the mind.”
“By reading a man does as it were antedate his life, and makes himself contemporary with the ages past. And this way of running up beyond one's nativity is much better than Plato's pre-existence, because here a man knows something of the state, and is the wiser for it, which he is not in the other.”
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Jeremy Collier on Reading 2 quotes
“A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. Too much over-charges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and gives health and vigour to the mind.”
Jeremy Collier on Truth
“We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.”
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Jeremy Collier on Edward the Confessor 2 quotes
“That this Prince cur'd the King's Evil, is beyond Dispute: And since the Credit of this Miracle is unquestionable, I see no reason why we should Scruple believing the rest... King Edward the Confessor was the first that cur'd this Distemper, and from him it has descended as an Hereditary Miracle upon all his Successors. To dispute the Matter of Fact, is to go to the Excesses of Scepticism, to deny our Senses, and be incredulous even to Ridiculousness.”
About Jeremy Collier
Jeremy Collier (23 September 1650 – 26 April 1726) was an English bishop and theatre critic.