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Jeremy Collier Quotes about Giving

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Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

Jeremy Collier
Giving, Way, Pushing

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

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

A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body.

Jeremy Collier
Men, Expression, Giving
Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”

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.

Jeremy Collier
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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