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Let me know myself let others guess at me.

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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 proud man hath no God the envious man hath no neighbor the angry man hath not himself.
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The blood that is once inflamed with wine is apt to boil with rage.
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A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.
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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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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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Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
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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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God loves to see his creatures happy our lawful delight is His they know not God that think to please Him with making themselves miserable. The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut and lance themselves never any holy man looked for thanks from the true God by wronging himself.
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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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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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[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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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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Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.
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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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Society is the atmosphere of souls and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.
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The life of doctrine is in application.
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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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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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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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Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
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