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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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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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The ear and the eye are the mind's receivers but the tongue is only busy in expending the treasures received. It, therefore, the revenues of the mind be uttered as fast or faster than they are received, it must needs be bare, and can never lay up for purchase.
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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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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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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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A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.
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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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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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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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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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I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.
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I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist
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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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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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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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[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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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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Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.
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