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Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.
Joseph Hall
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Joseph Hall
Age: 82 †
Born: 1574
Born: July 1
Died: 1656
Died: September 8
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Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Leicestershire
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Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
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Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
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Even the best things ill used become evils and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good.
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The life of doctrine is in application.
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Virtues go ever in troops they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd which yet are, but appear not.
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Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but, again, fewest incitations to good. So much as doing good is better than not doing evil will I account Christian good-fellowship better than an hermitish and melancholy solitariness.
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Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.
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The idle man is the Devil's cushion, on which he taketh his free ease: who, as he is uncapable of any good, so he is fitly disposed for all evil motions.
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Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after.
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And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.
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Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.
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There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be.
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