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Mortimer Collins Quotes

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

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

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

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”

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

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”

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”

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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