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• All dreams reflect inborn creativity and ability to face and solve life's problems.

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  Dream, Creativity, Faces

  Jeremy Taylor (2009). “The Wisdom of Your Dreams: Using Dreams to Tap into Your Unconscious and Transform Your Life”, p.18, Penguin

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• A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

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  Heart, Apples, Celibacy

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.38

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• The private devotions and secret offices of religion are like the refreshing of a garden with the distilling and petty drops of a waterpot; but addressed from the temple, they are like ram from heaven.

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  Prayer, Garden, Office

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• This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious.

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  Grace, Common, Action

  Jeremy Taylor, Thomas Smart Hughes (1831). “The Works of Jeremy Taylor”, p.53

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• To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.

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  Life, Men, Miracle

  The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying Ch. 1, Sect. 1

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• In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.

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  Wise, Men, Design

  Jeremy Taylor (1660). “Ductor Dubitantium, Or, The Rule of Conscience in All Her Generall Measures: Serving as a Great Instrument for the Determination of Cases of Conscience : In Four Books”, p.34

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• So are the early unions of an unfixed Marriage: watchful and observant, jealous and busy, inquisitive and careful, and apt to take alarm at every unkind word. For infirmities do not manifest themselves in the first Scenes, but in the succession of a long Society.

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  Jealous, Long, Unions

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1848). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, Lord Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore: Sermons”, p.216

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• Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.

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  Curiosity, Spirit, Incontinence

  Jeremy Taylor (1839). “Holy Living and Dying Together with Prayers: Containing the Whole Duty of a Christian...”, p.101

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• Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.

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  Time, Retirement, Envy

  Jeremy Taylor (1847). “The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living”, p.127

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• The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did; saying that which is made, is, and that which made it, is not. But this folly is infinite as hell, as much without light or bound as the chaos or the primitive nothing.

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  Light, Atheism, Tongue

  Jeremy Taylor (1841). “The Whole Sermons of Jeremy Taylor ...: And, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living and Holy Dying : with a Biographical Memoir”, p.310

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• Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

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  Friendship, Secret, Secrecy

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.569

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• Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies.

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  Laziness, Busy, Catching

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• 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.

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  Men, Thinking, Desire

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.359

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• This temporal fire is but a painted fire in respect of that penetrating and real fire in hell.

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  Real, Fire, Hell

  Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1822). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D. ...: With a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings,”, p.522

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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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  Humility, Men, Littles

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• Covetousness teaches people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice; and after all this, it is for no good to itself, for it dares not spend those heaps of treasure which it has snatched.

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  People, Evil, Treasure

  Jeremy Taylor (1850). “Holy Living and Dying: Together with Prayers : Containing the Whole Duty of a Christian, and the Parts of Devotion Fitted to All Occasions and Furnished for All Necessities”, p.231

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• Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.

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  Mother, Father, Men

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• Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face.

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  Laughter, Laughing, Faces

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• Dive on them and squash them if you must.

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  Squash, Ifs

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• Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for which God hath given us the use of drink.

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  Order, Use, Affection

  "Holy Lining", Chapter II, Part 2 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 398-399), 1922.

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• A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.

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  Wise, Stars, Men

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.362

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• He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.

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  Heart, Ties, Together

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1854). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Clerus domini. Office ministerial. Discourse of friendship. Rules and advices to the clergy. Life”, p.85

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• An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.

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  Arrows, Acquisition, Unjust

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• The greatest evils, are from within us; and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good.

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  Evil, Looks

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1856). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying”, p.95

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• Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

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  Marriage, Mother, Cities

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons”, p.211

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