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• Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the longer they will continue: and for pleasures, because they stay not, and do but call to drink at my door, I will use them as passengers with slight respect. He is his own best friend that makes the least of both of them.

  Joseph Hall

  Christian, Blessing, Doors

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “Works: Devotional works”, p.66

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• Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.

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  Running, Exercise, Alarms

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• No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will not do him the favour to whip him. The world afflicts him not, because it loves him: for each man is indulgent to his own. God uses not the rod where He means to use the Word. The pillory or scourge is for those malefactors that shall escape execution.

  Joseph Hall

  Christian, Mean, Blessing

  Joseph Hall (1824). “Select Tracts from the writings of ... J. H. ... Edited by C. Bradley”, p.336

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• [W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.

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  Death, Lying, Eye

  Joseph Hall (1808). “Devotional works”

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• What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

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  Hate, Liberty, Fool

  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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• There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.

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  Ears, Mouths, Slander

  Joseph Hall, John Webster Morris (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.380

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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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  Hate, Men, Sin

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “Works: Devotional works”, p.12

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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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  People, Wealth, Rich

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• Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when they have tasted of their bane, cannot rest till they drink, and then can much less rest till they die

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  Ambition, Men, Enemy

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.26

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• Now you say, alas! Christianity is hard; I grant it; but gainful and happy. I contemn the difficulty when I respect the advantage. The greatest labors that have answerable requitals are less than the least that have no regard. Believe me, when I look to the reward, I would not have the work easier. It is a good Master whom we serve, who not only pays, but gives; not after the proportion of our earnings, but of His own mercy.

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  Believe, Giving, Looks

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• Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.

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  Heart, Eye, Heaven

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.151

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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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  Soul, Atmosphere, Society

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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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  Men, Glasses, Names

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.23

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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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  Taken, Hands, Two

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.89

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• Infidelity and faith look both through the perspective glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees those objects near which are afar off, and makes great things little,-diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils. Faith looks at the right end, and brings the blessings that are far off in time close to our eye, and multiplies God's mercies, which, in a distance, lost their greatness.

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  Spiritual, Distance, Eye

  Joseph Hall (1837). “Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings”, p.154

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• Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.

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  Passion, Men, Fool

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• As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless; so dote the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires and pruned with afflictions. If it be painful to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me be pruned, that I may grow, rather than be cut up to burn.

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  Running, Cutting, Men

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• Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

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  Laziness, Desperate, Dare

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• ...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.

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  Gratitude, Covetousness

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.34

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• Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.

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  Procrastination, Purpose, Deathbed

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Practical works”, p.257

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• It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears

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  Ears, Tongue, Shame

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “Works: Practical works”, p.281

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• The blood that is once inflamed with wine is apt to boil with rage.

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  Wine, Blood, Rage

  Joseph Hall, Thomas Smart Hughes (1831). “Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testament”, p.489

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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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  Mean, Guests, Welcome

  Joseph Hall (1839). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Miscellaneous works; Poetical works: Appendix; indices, etc”, p.195

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• There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be.

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  Sea, Earth, Pearls

  Joseph Hall (1860). “Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments”, p.65

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• The ear and the eye are the mind's receivers; but the tongue is only busy in expending the treasures received. It, therefore, the revenues of the mind be uttered as fast or faster than they are received, it must needs be bare, and can never lay up for purchase.

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  Eye, Mind, Needs

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