Jeremy Taylor - Time Quotes

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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 hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

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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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Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.

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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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