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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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Jeremy Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1613
Born: August 15
Died: 1667
Died: August 13
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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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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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Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.
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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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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
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Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every step of its descent is like a rib of iron.
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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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