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I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I may not break prison till I be loosed by death; but I will leave it, not unwillingly, when I am loosed.
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He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.
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If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.
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Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.
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This field is so spacious that it were easy for a man to lose himself in it; and if I should spend all my pilgrimage in this walk, my time would sooner end than my way.
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The idle man is the Devil's cushion, on which he taketh his free ease: who, as he is uncapable of any good, so he is fitly disposed for all evil motions.
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Joseph Hall
Born:
July 1, 1574
Died:
September 8, 1656
(aged 82)
Bio:
Joseph Hall was an English bishop, satirist and moralist. His contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, and a high-profile controversialist of the early 1640s. In church politics, he tended in fact to a middle way.
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