Jeremy Collier

Quotes

• “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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Key dates

Born

1 January 1650

Died

1 January 1726

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Jeremy

Gender

male

Citizenship

Kingdom of Great Britain

Place of birth

Cambridgeshire

Place of death

London

Occupation

bishop

Position held

bishop

Educated at

Gonville and Caius College

Languages spoken

English language

Religion

Anglicanism

Field of work

theology

Image

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