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Jeremy Taylor Quotes |
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Type: Clergyman Quotes Category: British Clergyman Quotes Year of Birth: 1613 Date of Death: August 13, 1667 Nationality: British Find on Amazon: Jeremy Taylor Related Authors: Charles Spurgeon John Henry Newman Lionel Blue Thomas Traherne Bede Griffiths Graham Leonard Beilby Porteus John Stott |
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A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
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Jeremy Taylor A religion without mystery must be a religion without God. Jeremy Taylor Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others. Jeremy Taylor Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit. Jeremy Taylor Dive on them and squash them if you must. Jeremy Taylor Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward. Jeremy Taylor God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends. Jeremy Taylor Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous. Jeremy Taylor He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together. Jeremy Taylor He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine. Jeremy Taylor He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows. Jeremy Taylor He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason. Jeremy Taylor If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous. Jeremy Taylor It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not. Jeremy Taylor Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend. Jeremy Taylor Love is friendship set on fire. Jeremy Taylor Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself. Jeremy Taylor Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. Jeremy Taylor Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. Jeremy Taylor No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition. Jeremy Taylor |
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