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
time children perfection
Perfection is the child of time.
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.
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.
let-me knows
Let me know myself; let others guess at me.
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.
ears mouths slander
There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.
nice greatness contentment
Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.
laziness desperate dare
Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.