Jeremy Collier Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• The more we sink into the infirmities of age, the nearer we are to immortal youth. All people are young in the other world. That state is an eternal spring, ever fresh and flourishing. Now, to pass from midnight into noon on the sudden, to be decrepit one minute and all spirit and activity the next, must be a desirable change. To call this dying is an abuse of language.

  Jeremy Collier

  Death, Spring, Other Worlds

• Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.

  Jeremy Collier

  Truth, Promise, Band

• 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

  Jeremy Collier

  Hands, Mind, Crowds

  Jeremy Collier (1969). “Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: (1698-1709).”

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