Jeremy Taylor Quotes
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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.
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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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Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
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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.
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Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
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Dive on them and squash them if you must.
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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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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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Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
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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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Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.
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He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.