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Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered By reading of one book.
Jeremy Taylor
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Jeremy Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1613
Born: August 15
Died: 1667
Died: August 13
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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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Man and wife are equally concerned, to avoid all offence of each other, in the beginning of their conversation. Every little thing can blast an infant blossom.
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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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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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Dive on them and squash them if you must.
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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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Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.
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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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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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Friendship is the strongest bond in the world.
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The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed.
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Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.
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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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To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
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It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.
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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
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My life is blessed I have held my children's children.
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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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Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
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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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