Jeremy Collier Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

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

  Jeremy Collier

  Book, Reading, Men

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

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

  Jeremy Collier

  Book, Support, Solitude

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

  Jeremy Collier

  Book, Age, Entertainment

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

• 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.

  Jeremy Collier

  Disappointment, Book, Passion

  "Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects".

• Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty, too. I would not despair unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity.

  Jeremy Collier

  Honesty, Book, Mean

• I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by neces-sity.

  Jeremy Collier

  Book, Fate, Despair

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