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Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.
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Love is the greatest thing that God can give us; for Himself is love: and it is the greatest thing we can give to God; for it will also give ourselves, and carry with it all that is ours. The apostle calls it the band of perfection; it is the old, and it is the new, and it is the great commandment, and it is all the commandments; for it is the fulfilling of the Law.
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Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls.
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Man and wife are equally concerned, to avoid all offence of each other, in the beginning of their conversation. Every little thing can blast an infant blossom.
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The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did; saying that which is made, is, and that which made it, is not. But this folly is infinite as hell, as much without light or bound as the chaos or the primitive nothing.
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Her heart was a passion-flower, bearing within it the crown of thorns and the cross of Christ.
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... since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.
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No man ever repented that he arose from the table sober, healthful, and with his wits about him.
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He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.
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God is everywhere present by His power. He rolls the orbs of heaven with His hand; He fixes the earth with His foot; He guides all creatures with His eye, and refreshes them with His influence; He makes the powers of hell to shake with His terrors, and binds the devils with His word.
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Can any thing in this world be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth can come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster?
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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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Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
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How many people there are that weep with want, or are mad with oppression, or are desperate by too quick a sense of a constant infelicity.
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As our life is very short, so it is very miserable, and therefore it is well it is short.
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But I shall say no more of this at this time; for this is to be felt and not to be talked of; and they that never touched it with their finger may secretly perhaps laugh at it in their heart and be never the wiser.
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In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with you in the days of ordinary conversation and in the circumstances of secular employment.
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Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
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... for there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens...
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God is pleased with no music from below so much as in the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows, of supported orphans, of rejoicing, and comforted, and thankful persons.
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This thing…that can be understood and not expressed, may take a neuter gender;—and every schoolboy knows it.
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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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This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious.
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Faith converses with the angels, and antedates the hymns of glory.
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So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
Jeremy Taylor
Born:
August 15, 1613
Died:
August 13, 1667
(aged 53)
Bio:
Jeremy Taylor was a cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell.
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