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Joseph Hall
Age: 82 †
Born: 1574
Born: July 1
Died: 1656
Died: September 8
Clergyman
Poet
Priest
Writer
Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Leicestershire
Application
Doctrine
Life

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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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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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...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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Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
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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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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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A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.
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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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He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares on God He hath bidden me they cannot burden Him.
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I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist
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Let me know myself let others guess at me.
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Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.
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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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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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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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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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Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.
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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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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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