Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by John Churton Collins (English Literary Critic)

John Churton Collins (1848–1908) was a British literary critic. Churton Collins was born at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England. From King Edward’s School, Birmingham, he went to Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1872, and at once devoted himself to a literary career, as journalist, essayist and lecturer. His first book was a study of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and later he edited various classical English writers, and published volumes on Bolingbroke and Voltaire in England, The Study of English Literature, a study of Dean Swift, Essays and Studies, Ephemera Critica, Essays in Poetry and Criticism, and Rousseau and Voltaire, his original essays being sharply controversial in tone, but full of knowledge.

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Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
John Churton Collins
Topics: Mistakes

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
John Churton Collins
Topics: Wisdom

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends
John Churton Collins
Topics: Adversity, Friendship

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
John Churton Collins
Topics: Advice, Profit

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.
John Churton Collins
Topics: Advice

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.
John Churton Collins
Topics: Trust

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.
John Churton Collins
Topics: Anxiety, Fear, Jealousy, Envy

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
John Churton Collins
Topics: Foolishness, Fools

No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.
John Churton Collins
Topics: Confidence

To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.
John Churton Collins
Topics: Friendship

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.
John Churton Collins
Topics: Fear, Anxiety, Danger

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
John Churton Collins
Topics: Vice, Perspective

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