Joseph Hall Quotes
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For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.
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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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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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Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to the end, to judge of the act. Let me look to the act, and leave the end with God.
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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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Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.
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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.
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Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.
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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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If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.
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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.
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Satan would seem to be mannerly and reasonable; making as if he would be content with one-half of the heart, whereas God challengeth all or none: as, indeed, He hath most reason to claim all that made all. But this is nothing but a crafty fetch of Satan; for he knows that if he have any part, God will have none: so the whole falleth to his share alone.
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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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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.
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Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good.
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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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Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.
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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.
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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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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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The life of doctrine is in application.
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The idle man is the devil's cushion.
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Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
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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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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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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.
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I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.
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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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A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.
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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.
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