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Jeremy Taylor
British
Clergyman
About the author
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
Jeremy Taylor,
British
Clergyman
#Men
#Truth
#Error
He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.
Jeremy Taylor,
British
Clergyman
#Friend
#Zeal
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Jeremy Taylor,
British
Clergyman
#Friendship
#Secrecy
#Chastity
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.
Jeremy Taylor,
British
Clergyman
#Heart
#Sweetness
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
Jeremy Taylor,
British
Clergyman
#God
#Religion
#Mystery
Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
Jeremy Taylor,
British
Clergyman
#Men
#Opinions
#Conscience
#Anticipation
Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.
Jeremy Taylor,
British
Clergyman
#Spirit
#Curiosity
Dive on them and squash them if you must.
Jeremy Taylor,
British
Clergyman
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
Jeremy Taylor,
British
Clergyman
#Time
#God
#Earth
#Man
#Eternity
He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
Jeremy Taylor,
British
Clergyman
#Fool
#Gold
#Neighbors
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
Jeremy Taylor,
British
Clergyman
#Wife
#Children
#Home
He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.
Jeremy Taylor,
British
Clergyman
#God
#Reason
#Man
#Conscience
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.
Jeremy Taylor,
British
Clergyman
#Anger
#Cause
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
Jeremy Taylor,
British
Clergyman
#Ignorance
#Learning
When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
Jeremy Taylor,
British
Clergyman
#Trust
#Lie
#Dying
#Prayer
Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
Jeremy Taylor,
British
Clergyman
#Act
#Virtue
#Reward
Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.
Jeremy Taylor,
British
Clergyman
#God
#Work
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
Jeremy Taylor,
British
Clergyman
#People
#Ignorance
#Knowledge
The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
Jeremy Taylor,
British
Clergyman
#Life
#Knowledge
#Theology
No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.
Jeremy Taylor,
British
Clergyman
#Man
#Poor
#Fortune
#Impatience
Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
Jeremy Taylor,
British
Clergyman
#Action
#Mother
#Daughters
#Habits
Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
Jeremy Taylor,
British
Clergyman
#Enemy
#Friend
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
Jeremy Taylor,
British
Clergyman
#Spirit
#Language
#Soul
#Tongue
#Meditation
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
Jeremy Taylor,
British
Clergyman
#World
#Mother
#Marriage
#Heaven
#Cities
#Churches
Love is friendship set on fire.
Jeremy Taylor,
British
Clergyman
#Love
#Friendship
#Fire