Jeremy Collier Quotes About Giving

• Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

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  Jeremy Collier (1722). “Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: In Two Parts. ...”, p.19

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• Hope is a vigorous principle; it is furnished with light and heat to advise and execute; it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost. And thus, by perpetually pushing and assurance, it puts a difficulty out of countenance, and makes a seeming impossibility give way.

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  Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”

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• Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, and secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business.

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  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.118

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• Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

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

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  Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”

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