As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive no laconism can reach it 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room
More Quotes from Jeremy Collier:
Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.Jeremy Collier
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Jeremy Collier
How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
Jeremy Collier
Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
Jeremy Collier
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
Jeremy Collier
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Faces Quotes, Language Quotes, Mind QuotesThis would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.
Mark Rothko
Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
Lemuel K. Washburn
One hell of an outlay for a very small return, with most of them.
Glenda Jackson