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
being-thankful legs might
For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.
troops crowds sometimes
Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear not.
laziness desperate dare
Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.