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It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.
Jeremy Taylor
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Jeremy Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1613
Born: August 15
Died: 1667
Died: August 13
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No man can hinder our private addresses to God every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the earth he treads on, the altar.
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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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Dive on them and squash them if you must.
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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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Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls.
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This temporal fire is but a painted fire in respect of that penetrating and real fire in hell.
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Friendship is the strongest bond in the world.
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I have seen the sun with a little ray of distant light challenge all the powers of darkness, and without violence and noise, climbing up the hill, hath made night so retire that its memory was lost in the joys and sprightliness of the morning.
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To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.
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When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
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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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Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
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All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.
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God is everywhere present by His power. He rolls the orbs of heaven with His hand He fixes the earth with His foot He guides all creatures with His eye, and refreshes them with His influence He makes the powers of hell to shake with His terrors, and binds the devils with His word.
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Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
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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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Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
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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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Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.
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For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens.
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