Mortimer Collins Quotes

• The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.

  Mortimer Collins

  Positive Thinking, Mind, Age

  The Village Comedy Vol. 1

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• Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

  Mortimer Collins

  Drug, May, Disease

  The Village Comedy Vol. II

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• There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play Chess

  Mortimer Collins

  Men, Yield, Class

  Mortimer Collins, Frank Kerslake (1880). “Attic Salt, Or, Epigrammatic Sayings, Healthful, Humorous and Wise: In Prose and Verse, Collected from the Works of Mortimer Collins”

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• Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.

  Mortimer Collins

  Death, Pain, Physicians

  The Village Comedy Vol. II, Ch. 110

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• There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist — Then he was a Man and a Positivist.

  Mortimer Collins

  Men, Hair, Thumbs

  Mortimer Collins, F. Percy Cotton (1886). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Mortimer Collins”

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• Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with the Positivists.

  Mortimer Collins

  Religion, Church, Deities

  Mortimer Collins, F. Percy Cotton (1886). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Mortimer Collins”

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• O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.

  Mortimer Collins

  Wise, Fate, Past

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