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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 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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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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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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...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.
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Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
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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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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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For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve and welcome make the rest.
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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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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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As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works.
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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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I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.
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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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The blood that is once inflamed with wine is apt to boil with rage.
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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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Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.
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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.
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A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.
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