Jeremy Taylor Quotes - Page 5

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• Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.

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  Curiosity, Spirit, Incontinence

  Jeremy Taylor (1839). “Holy Living and Dying Together with Prayers: Containing the Whole Duty of a Christian...”, p.101

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• It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.

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  Humility, Men, Littles

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• He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.

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  Choices, Action, Company

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Alexander Taylor (1861). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor”, p.9

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• 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.

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  Men, Thinking, Desire

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.359

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• The greatest evils, are from within us; and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good.

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  Evil, Looks

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1856). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying”, p.95

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• In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.

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  Wise, Men, Design

  Jeremy Taylor (1660). “Ductor Dubitantium, Or, The Rule of Conscience in All Her Generall Measures: Serving as a Great Instrument for the Determination of Cases of Conscience : In Four Books”, p.34

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