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• Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself.

  Joseph Hall

  Evil, Unity, Neutrality

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• How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!

  Joseph Hall

  Hate, Calling, Holiness

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.505

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• We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures, when we envy the happiness of rich and great men; we know not the inward canker that eats out all their joy and delight, and makes them really much more miserable than ourselves.

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  Men, Envy, Joy

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• Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced.

  Joseph Hall

  Ambition, Humility, Pride

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• And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.

  Joseph Hall

  Lows, Cases, Worst

  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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• A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Opinion

  Joseph Hall (1808). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works”, p.65

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• I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist

  Joseph Hall

  Adventure, Lists, Firsts

  'Virgidemiae' (1597) prologue

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• The idle man is the devil's cushion.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Devil, Laziness

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “Works: Devotional works”, p.60

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• I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.

  Joseph Hall

  Vanity, Together, Mets

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.10

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• Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear not.

  Joseph Hall

  Troops, Crowds, Sometimes

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.83

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• Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election.

  Joseph Hall

  Order, Calling, Firsts

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Containing forty-three sermons”, p.594

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• The idle man is the Devil's cushion, on which he taketh his free ease: who, as he is uncapable of any good, so he is fitly disposed for all evil motions.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Evil, Ease

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.60

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• That which the French proverb hath of sickness is true of all evils, that they come on horseback, and go away on foot; we have often seen a sudden fall or one meal's surfeit hath stuck by many to their graves; whereas pleasures come like oxen, slow, and heavily, and go away like post-horses, upon the spur.

  Joseph Hall

  Horse, Fall, Oxen

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• This field is so spacious that it were easy for a man to lose himself in it; and if I should spend all my pilgrimage in this walk, my time would sooner end than my way.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Way, Fields

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Practical works”, p.13

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• God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; they know not God that think to please Him with making themselves miserable. The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut and lance themselves; never any holy man looked for thanks from the true God by wronging himself.

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  Happiness, Cutting, Men

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Contemplations”, p.12

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• Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

  Joseph Hall

  Nice, Greatness, Contentment

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “to xviii”, p.16

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• I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I may not break prison till I be loosed by death; but I will leave it, not unwillingly,when I am loosed.

  Joseph Hall

  Death, Christian, Blessing

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.26

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