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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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Ostentation
Seldom
Vanity

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The blood that is once inflamed with wine is apt to boil with rage.
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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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Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.
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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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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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Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
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It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears
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...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.
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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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Even the best things ill used become evils and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good.
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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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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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Society is the atmosphere of souls and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.
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Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge.
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Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
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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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For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve and welcome make the rest.
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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 life of doctrine is in application.
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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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