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Jeremy Taylor
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Jeremy Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1613
Born: August 15
Died: 1667
Died: August 13
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For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens.
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Children, honor your parents in your hearts bear them not only awe and respect, but kindness and affection: love their persons, fear to do anything that may justly provoke them highly esteem them as the instruments under God of your being: for Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.
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To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
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Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
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Marriage hath in it less of beauty but more of safety, than the single life it hath more care, but less danger, it is more merry, and more sad it is fuller of sorrows, and fuller of joys it lies under more burdens, but it is supported by all the strengths of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful.
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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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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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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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To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.
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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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From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.
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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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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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