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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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Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.
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In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.
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To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.
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Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.
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All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.
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Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.
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Faith is the root of all blessings. Believe, and you shall be saved; believe, and you must needs be satisfied; believe, and you cannot but be comforted and happy
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
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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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