Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylorwas a cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of expression, and he is frequently cited as one of the greatest prose writers in the English language. He is remembered in the Church of England's calendar of saints with a Lesser Festival on 13 August...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth15 August 1613
fearful god great idle name tongue
Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue
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Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
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Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.
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From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.
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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
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Thus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at their trade. Æropus, a Macedonian king, made lanterns; Harcatius, the king of Parthia, was a mole-catcher; and Biantes, the Lydian, filed needles.
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The private and personal blessings we enjoy- the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.
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Dive on them and squash them if you must.
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Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every step of its descent is like a rib of iron.
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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
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It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.
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Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
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God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.
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Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies.