Jeremy Taylor

(498 votes)   No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Jeremy Taylor
1613-1667, British Churchman, Writer

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(411 votes)   Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.

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(370 votes)   God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.

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(325 votes)   Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.

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(295 votes)   What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of science is not able to make an oyster.

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

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(192 votes)   Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

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(188 votes)   Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

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(187 votes)   Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

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(183 votes)   No one is poor who does not think they are, however, if in prosperity with impatience they desire more, and proclaim their wants they disclose their beggarly condition.

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(182 votes)   Love is friendship set on fire.

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

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(180 votes)   Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

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(179 votes)   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.

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(178 votes)   Dive on them and squash them if you must.

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