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Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it. They should not reserve their benevolence for purposes after they are dead, for those who give not of their property till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

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People, Giving, Purpose

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I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows; at mid day, when he is highest, none at all.

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Long, Together, Shadow

Joseph Hall (1824). “Select Tracts from the Writings of the ... Rev. J. Hall”, p.231

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The life of doctrine is in application.

Joseph Hall

Doctrine, Application

Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “Works: Some specialities in the life of Bishop Hall. Letter from the Tower. Bishop Hall's Hard measure. Contemplations on the Old Testament”, p.381

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Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.

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Prayer, Home, Should

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He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares on God; He hath bidden me; they cannot burden Him.

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Care, Burden, Vain

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Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.

Joseph Hall

Thanksgiving, Christian, Religious

Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.14

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The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.

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Running, Weed, Men

Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.108

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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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Mother, Wind, Mind

Joseph Hall, Philip Wynter (1863). “Works”, p.37

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He is great enough that is his own master.

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Leadership, Enough, Masters

Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.76

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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.

Joseph Hall

Mind, Dull, Scythes

Joseph Hall (1839). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Latin theology with translations”, p.174

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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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Giving, Shows, Dies

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The godly man contrarily is afraid of nothing; not of God, because he knows Him his best friend, and will not hurt him; not of Satan, because he cannot hurt him; not of afflictions, because he knows they come from a loving God, and end in his good; not of the creatures, since "the very stones in the field are in league with Him;" not of himself, since his conscience is at peace.

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Hurt, Godly, Men

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The malcontent is neither well, full nor fasting; and though he abounds with complaints, yet nothing dislikes him but the present; for what he condemns while it was, once passed, he magnifies and strives to recall it out of the jaw of time. What he hath he seeth not, his eyes are so taken up with what he wants; and what he sees he careth not for, because be cares so much for that which is not.

Joseph Hall

Taken, Eye, Fasting

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As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works.

Joseph Hall

Wind, May, Pairs

Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall DD Successively Bishop of Exeter and Norwich: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings”, p.460

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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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Hurt, Hands, Temptation

Joseph Hall (1867). “Devotions, Sacred Aphorisms and Religious Table Talk: Selected from the Writings of the Eminently Pious and Learned Bishop Hall ; to which is Prefixed a Brief Memoir of the Author”, p.396

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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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Giving, Littles, Study

Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.58

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How easy it is for men to be swollen with admiration of their own strength and glory, and to be lifted up so high as to lose sight both of the ground whence they rose, and the hand that advanced them.

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Men, Sight, Hands

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 532, 1895.

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It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian.

Joseph Hall

Christian, Meditation, Divine

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 406, 1895.

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Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after.

Joseph Hall

Hurt, Revenge, Drones

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He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.

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Humble, Men, Thinking

Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.65

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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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Suffering, Strive, Found

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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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Sleep, Loss, Cities

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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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Adversity, Weather, Numbers

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God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well.

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Care, God Love, Wells

Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.85

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If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.

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Men, World, Might

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Born: July 1, 1574
Died: September 8, 1656
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