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Jeremy Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1613
Born: August 15
Died: 1667
Died: August 13
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To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.
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He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.
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A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.
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To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
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A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety.
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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
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Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
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In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.
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The greatest evils, are from within us and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good.
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The body of our prayer is the sum of our duty and as we must ask of God whatsoever we need, so we must watch and labor for all that we ask.
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This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious.
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Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
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The Lord's Prayer is short and mysterious, and, like the treasures of the Spirit, full of wisdom and latent senses: it is not improper to draw forth those excellencies which are intended and signified by every petition, that by so excellent an authority we may know what it is lawful to beg of God.
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It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.
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An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.
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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.
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If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it.
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It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.
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By friendship you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the most open communication, the noblest sufferings, the severest truth, the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds which brave men and women are capable.
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Friendship is the strongest bond in the world.
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