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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.

Joseph Hall

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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
Without
Pairs
Life
Forced
Breath
Breaths
Bellows
Works
Puffed
Wind
Ostentation
Words
Charitable
May
Pair

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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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