Joseph Hall
Joseph Hall
Joseph Hallwas an English bishop, satirist and moralist. His contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, and a high-profile controversialist of the early 1640s. In church politics, he tended in fact to a middle way...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth1 July 1574
sweet flower drawing
It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet.
would-be littles lasts
Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. Therefore live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it are desperate.
envy long care
Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.
rain shining affliction
If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.
taken blessing used
Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings.
life running ties
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
heart eye heaven
Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.
men evil laziness
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.
men hands sight
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.
hurt revenge flesh
Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after.