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Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.
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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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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Society is the atmosphere of souls and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.
Joseph Hall
Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge.
Joseph Hall
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.
Joseph Hall
[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.
Joseph Hall
I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.
Joseph Hall
Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.
Joseph Hall
We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures, when we envy the happiness of rich and great men we know not the inward canker that eats out all their joy and delight, and makes them really much more miserable than ourselves.
Joseph Hall
...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.
Joseph Hall
Mark in what order: first, our calling then, our election not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election.
Joseph Hall
This field is so spacious that it were easy for a man to lose himself in it and if I should spend all my pilgrimage in this walk, my time would sooner end than my way.
Joseph Hall
Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
Joseph Hall
There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.
Joseph Hall
It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian.
Joseph Hall
Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself.
Joseph Hall
Let me know myself let others guess at me.
Joseph Hall
The proud man hath no God the envious man hath no neighbor the angry man hath not himself.
Joseph Hall
Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they posses, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it.
Joseph Hall
Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.
Joseph Hall
Even the best things ill used become evils and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good.
Joseph Hall
