Matthew Hale quotes
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“The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time.”
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“Be frugal of your time. It is one of the best jewels we have.”
-- Matthew HaleSource : Matthew Hale, Gilbert Burnet (1700). “Contemplations, Moral and Divine: In Two Parts”, p.289
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“It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.”
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“Every morning, read seriously and reverently a portion of the Holy Scriptures, and acquaint yourselves with the history and doctrine thereof. It is a book full of light and wisdom, will make you wise to eternal life, and furnish you with directions and principles to guide and order your life safely and prudently.”
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“The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.”
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“Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.”
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“When rogues fall out, honest men get into their own.”
-- Matthew HaleSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 371-372), 1922.
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“Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.”
-- Matthew HaleSource : In 'Historia Placitorum Coronae' (ed. Sollom Emlyn, 1736)
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“The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.”
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