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My life is blessed I have held my children's children.

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Jeremy Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1613
Born: August 15
Died: 1667
Died: August 13
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Friendship is the strongest bond in the world.
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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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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.
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It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.
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Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.
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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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So are the early unions of an unfixed Marriage: watchful and observant, jealous and busy, inquisitive and careful, and apt to take alarm at every unkind word. For infirmities do not manifest themselves in the first Scenes, but in the succession of a long Society.
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Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls.
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Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered By reading of one book.
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God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.
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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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Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
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Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.
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To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
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He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
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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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Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly: for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.
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