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Joseph Hall
Age: 82 †
Born: 1574
Born: July 1
Died: 1656
Died: September 8
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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.
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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.
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For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve and welcome make the rest.
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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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Society is the atmosphere of souls and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.
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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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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.
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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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The proud man hath no God the envious man hath no neighbor the angry man hath not himself.
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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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Death did not first strike Adam, the first sinful man, nor Cain, the first hypocrite, but Abel, the innocent and righteous. The first soul that met with death, overcame death the first soul that parted from earth went to heaven. Death argues not displeasure, because he whom God loved best dies first, and the murderer is punished with living.
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He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares on God He hath bidden me they cannot burden Him.
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It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears
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[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.
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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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Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
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Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
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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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A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.
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Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.
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