British - Clergyman | August 15, 1613 - August 13, 1667
Love is friendship set on fire.
Jeremy Taylor
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Dive on them and squash them if you must.
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Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
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He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.
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Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
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To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
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When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
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Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
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The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
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No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.
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Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
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He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
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