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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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  Giving, Sobriety, Satisfaction

  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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• Avoid all affectation and singularity. What is according to nature is best, and what is contrary to it is always distasteful. Nothing is graceful that is not our own.

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  Singularity, Contrary, Distasteful

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• Thoughts take up no room. When they are right, they afford a portable pleasure, which one may travel with, without any trouble or encumbrance.

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  May, Rooms, Trouble

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• A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings of life, and swagger away his own enjoyments; and not to enlarge upon not folly, not to mention the injustice of such a behavior, it is always the sign of a little, unbenevolent temper. It is disease and discredit all over, and there is no more greatness in it, than in the swelling of a dropsy.

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  Blessing, Greatness, Men

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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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  Hope, Heart, Men

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

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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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  Thinking, Giving, Imperfection

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

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• Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others.

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  Depressing, Passion, Men

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• Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.

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  Confidence, Ignorance, Self

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• Heroes are a mischievous race.

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  Hero, Race, Mischievous

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• It were well if there were fewer heroes; for I scarcely ever heard of any, excepting Hercules, but did more mischief than good. These overgrown mortals commonly use their will with their right hand; and their reason with their left.

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  Hero, Hands, Use

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

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• People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.

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  People, Opinion, Countenance

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• The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the continuance.

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  Office, Support, Rewards

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

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• We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.

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  Letting Go, Answers, Truth Is

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

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