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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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Joseph Hall
Age: 82 †
Born: 1574
Born: July 1
Died: 1656
Died: September 8
Clergyman
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Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Leicestershire
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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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There is no enemy can hurt us but by our own hands. Satan could not hurt us, if our own corruption betrayed us not. Afflictions cannot hurt us without our own impatience. Temptations cannot hurt us, without our own yieldance. Death could not hurt us, without the sting of our own sins. Sins could not hurt us, without our own impenitence.
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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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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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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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