British - Clergyman | August 15, 1613 - August 13, 1667
Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
Jeremy Taylor
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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
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Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.
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Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
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He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
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A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
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A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
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Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
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God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
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He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.
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It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
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