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

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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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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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Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
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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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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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Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced.
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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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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 proud man hath no God the envious man hath no neighbor the angry man hath not himself.
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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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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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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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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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Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.
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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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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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There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.
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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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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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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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