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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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...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.
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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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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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Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.
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Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.
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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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I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows at mid day, when he is highest, none at all.
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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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For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve and welcome make the rest.
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Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.
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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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Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.
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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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It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears
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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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I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.
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Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
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The blood that is once inflamed with wine is apt to boil with rage.
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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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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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