Mary Collyer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions.
-- Mary Collyer

#Passion #Soul #Virtue
Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions; it is the order, the symmetry, the interior beauty of the mind; the source of the truest pleasures, the fountain of the sublimest and most perfect happiness.
-- Mary Collyer

#Passion #Order #Perfect
I am to consider the many advantages arising from a frequent use of oaths, curses, and imprecations. In the first place, this genteel accomplishment is a wonderful help to discourse; as it supplies the want of good sense, learning, and eloquence. The illiterate and stupid, by the help of oaths, become orators; and he, whose wretched intellects would not permit him to utter a coherent sentence, by this easy practice, excites the laughter, and fixes the attention, of a brilliant and joyous circle.
-- Mary Collyer

#Laughter #Stupid #Practice
swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the coxcomb.
-- Mary Collyer

#Stupid #Ignorant #Said
Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end.
-- Mary Collyer

#Answers #Heroic #Appearance
prayer must be, in its own nature, absurd and impertinent.
-- Mary Collyer

#Prayer #Absurd
I am strangely addicted to the writing of long letters, which, I am afraid, tire you; and for the future, I believe, I must be less communicative, in order to be less troublesome.
-- Mary Collyer

#Believe #Writing #Order
Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.
-- Mary Collyer

#Maturity #Hair #Greed
How tedious is time, when his wings are loaded with expectation!
-- Mary Collyer

#Time #Wings #Expectations
The most savage and voracious animal never kills to increase his wealth, or open a way to grandeur. It slays to satisfy his hunger, or in a natural defense of his own life, or of those whom he is prompted by instinct to preserve.
-- Mary Collyer

#Animal #Savages #Defense
What the eye does not see, the heart does not rue
-- Mary Collyer

#Eye #Heart #Rue
... those, who from an immoderate and false self-love, study to keep their humanity under, always take care, for their own sakes, to represent poverty to themselves, as something ridiculous, mean, and contemptible.
-- Mary Collyer

#Mean #Self #Humanity

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