Jeremy Collier Quotes

• Belief gets in the way of learning.

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

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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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• 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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• Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

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• In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.

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• Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

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• I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

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• Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

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• A brave mind is always impregnable.

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Birth:	23rd September, 1650
Death:	26th April, 1726
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Clergyman, Critic

About

Jeremy Collier was born in Stow cum Quy, Cambridgeshire, England. He was an English theatre critic and non-juror bishop. He earned a BA degree in 1673 and an MA degree in 1676 from Caius College, the University of Cambridge. In 1713, he was consecrated a non-juror bishop by George Hickes and two Scottish bishops, Archibald Campbell and James Gadderar. He is the author of book, entitled Not a Statistic: The True Life of a Foster Child.

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