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Jeremy Taylor
1613 - August 13, 1667
Nationality: British
Category: Clergyman
Subcategory: British Clergyman

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

   

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.

   

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

   

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.

   

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

   

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

   

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

   

Love is friendship set on fire.

   

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.

   

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

   

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.

   

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

   

Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

   

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

   

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.

   

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

   

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

   

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