Jeremy Collier Quotes


Hope is a vigorous principle; it is furnished with light and heat to advise and execute; it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost. And thus, by perpetually pushing and assurance, it puts a difficulty out of countenance, and makes a seeming impossibility give way.


Citations

Collier, Jeremy. Essays upon Several Moral Subjects. Part II, 2nd ed., R. Sare and H. Hindmarsh, 1697, p. 138.

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Jeremy Collier
Jeremy Collier
  • Born: September 23, 1650
  • Died: April 26, 1726
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Clergyman

Jeremy Collier was an English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian.