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Friendship is the strongest bond in the world.

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Jeremy Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1613
Born: August 15
Died: 1667
Died: August 13
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Friendship
World

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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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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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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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Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.
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Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.
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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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It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.
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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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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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Dive on them and squash them if you must.
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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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A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
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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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