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Jeremy Taylor

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Dive on them and squash them if you must.


— Jeremy Taylor


#must #squash #them #you

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.


— Jeremy Taylor


#earth #eternity #given #god #god hath

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.


— Jeremy Taylor


#certain #conscience #god #good #him

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.


— Jeremy Taylor


#anger #cause #either #fury #great

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.


— Jeremy Taylor


#desires #does #fortune #full #himself

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.


— Jeremy Taylor


#ignorance #learning #proud

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.


— Jeremy Taylor


#creator #done #down #dying #hands

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.


— Jeremy Taylor


#direct #spirit

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.


— Jeremy Taylor


#every #ingredient #reward #unto #virtue

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.


— Jeremy Taylor


#after #beautiful #daughters #far #habits






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In 1646 he is found in partnership with two other deprived clergymen keeping a school at Newton Hall in the parish of Llanfihangel Aberbythych Carmarthenshire. He would submit all minor questions to the reason of the individual member but he set certain limits to toleration excluding whatsoever is against the foundation of faith or contrary to good life and the laws of obedience or destructive to human society and the public and just interests of bodies politic. Bliss iii.

He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of expression and was often presented as a model of prose writing. He also became vice-chancellor of the University of Dublin. Jeremy Taylor (15 August 1613 – 13 August 1667) was a cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell.

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