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The proud man hath no God the envious man hath no neighbor the angry man hath not himself.

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Joseph Hall
Age: 82 †
Born: 1574
Born: July 1
Died: 1656
Died: September 8
Clergyman
Poet
Priest
Writer
Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Leicestershire
Envious
Hath
Neighbor
Anger
Angry
Proud
Men

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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.
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Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced.
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Let me know myself let others guess at me.
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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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Mark in what order: first, our calling then, our election not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election.
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Tranquillity consisteth in a steadiness of the mind and how can that vessel that is beaten upon by contrary waves and winds, and tottereth to either part, be said to keep a steady course? Resolution is the only mother of security.
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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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It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian.
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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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