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I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.

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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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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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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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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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Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.
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There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.
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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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...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.
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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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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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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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The proud man hath no God the envious man hath no neighbor the angry man hath not himself.
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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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Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.
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A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.
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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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[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.
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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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