Joseph Hall Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.”
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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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“There is no enemy can hurt us but by our own hands. Satan could not hurt us, if our own corruption betrayed us not. Afflictions cannot hurt us without our own impatience. Temptations cannot hurt us, without our own yieldance. Death could not hurt us, without the sting of our own sins. Sins could not hurt us, without our own impenitence.”
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“Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. Therefore live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it are desperate.”
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“Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.”
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“Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.”
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“Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they posses, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it.”
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“It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet.”
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“I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.”
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“Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.”
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“Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge.”
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“Tranquillity consisteth in a steadiness of the mind; and how can that vessel that is beaten upon by contrary waves and winds, and tottereth to either part, be said to keep a steady course? Resolution is the only mother of security.”
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“Gospel ministers should not only be like dials on watches, or mile-stones upon the road, but like clocks and larums, to sound the alarm to sinners. Aaron wore bells as well as pomegranates, and the prophets were commanded to lift up their voice like a trumpet. A sleeping sentinel may be the loss of the city.”
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“Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.”
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“I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness.”
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“Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself.”
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“Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of the church, and numbers die of it; though because it is a subtle and inward evil, it be little perceived. It is to be feared there are many sick of it, that look well and comely in God's outward worship, and they may pass well in good weather, in times of peace; but days of adversity are days of trial.”
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“For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest.”
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“It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of the person. I will study more how to give a good account of my little, than how to make it more.”
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“How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.”
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“Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.”
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“There is no word or action but may be taken with two hands,--either with the right hand of charitable construction, or the sinister interpretation of malice and suspicion; and all things do succeed as they are taken. To construe an evil, action well is but a pleasing and profitable deceit to myself; but to misconstrue a good thing is a treble wrong,--to myself, the action, and the author.”
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“Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to the end, to judge of the act. Let me look to the act, and leave the end with God.”
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“Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear not.”
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“Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.”
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“Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but, again, fewest incitations to good. So much as doing good is better than not doing evil will I account Christian good-fellowship better than an hermitish and melancholy solitariness.”
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“There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.”
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“Not only commission makes a sin. A man is guilty of all those sins he hateth not. If I cannot avoid all, yet I will hate all.”
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