Jeremy Collier

English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian

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God not the origin of evil
An appendix to the three English volumes in folio of Morery's Great historical. geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary
A defence of the Short view of the profaneness and immorality of the English stage, &c
A defence of the absolution given to Sr. William Perkins, at the place of execution. April the 3d
An essay upon gaming

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“This is brave Bear-Garden language!”
“By reading a man does as it were antedate his life, and makes himself contemporary with the ages past. And this way of running up beyond one's nativity is much better than Plato's pre-existence, because here a man knows something of the state, and is the wiser for it, which he is not in the other.”
“A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. Too much over-charges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and gives health and vigour to the mind.”
“People's opinions of themselves are commonly legible in their countenances.”
“Envy [...], like a cold poison, [...] benumbs and stupefies. And thus conscious as it were of its own impotence, it folds its arms in despair, and sits cursing in a corner.”
“Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.”

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