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Jeremy Collier Quotes: The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the continuance.
         

The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the continuance.


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Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.



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Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.



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Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.



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