Jeremy Taylor
Clergyman
1613-08-15
Quotes by Jeremy Taylor
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If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury if from a small cause, it is peevishness and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.
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Dive on them and squash them if you must.
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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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The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
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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 does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
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It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.
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To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.
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A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.
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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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God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
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Love is friendship set on fire.
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If these little sparks of holy fire which I have thus heaped together do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a fancy.
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A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
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Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them; and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly: for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.
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It is usually not so much the greatness of our trouble as the littleness of our spirit which makes us complain.
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