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• God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well.

  Joseph Hall

  Care, God Love, Wells

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.85

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• If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, World, Might

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• Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the longer they will continue: and for pleasures, because they stay not, and do but call to drink at my door, I will use them as passengers with slight respect. He is his own best friend that makes the least of both of them.

  Joseph Hall

  Christian, Blessing, Doors

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “Works: Devotional works”, p.66

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• Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.

  Joseph Hall

  Running, Exercise, Alarms

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• No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will not do him the favour to whip him. The world afflicts him not, because it loves him: for each man is indulgent to his own. God uses not the rod where He means to use the Word. The pillory or scourge is for those malefactors that shall escape execution.

  Joseph Hall

  Christian, Mean, Blessing

  Joseph Hall (1824). “Select Tracts from the writings of ... J. H. ... Edited by C. Bradley”, p.336

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• Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

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  Laziness, Desperate, Dare

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• Now you say, alas! Christianity is hard; I grant it; but gainful and happy. I contemn the difficulty when I respect the advantage. The greatest labors that have answerable requitals are less than the least that have no regard. Believe me, when I look to the reward, I would not have the work easier. It is a good Master whom we serve, who not only pays, but gives; not after the proportion of our earnings, but of His own mercy.

  Joseph Hall

  Believe, Giving, Looks

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• What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

  Joseph Hall

  Hate, Liberty, Fool

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.65

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• [W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.

  Joseph Hall

  Death, Lying, Eye

  Joseph Hall (1808). “Devotional works”

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• Not only commission makes a sin. A man is guilty of all those sins he hateth not. If I cannot avoid all, yet I will hate all.

  Joseph Hall

  Hate, Men, Sin

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “Works: Devotional works”, p.12

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• Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when they have tasted of their bane, cannot rest till they drink, and then can much less rest till they die

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  Ambition, Men, Enemy

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.26

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• Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.

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  Heart, Eye, Heaven

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.151

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• Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.

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  Soul, Atmosphere, Society

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• Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.

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  Procrastination, Purpose, Deathbed

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Practical works”, p.257

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• As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless; so dote the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires and pruned with afflictions. If it be painful to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me be pruned, that I may grow, rather than be cut up to burn.

  Joseph Hall

  Running, Cutting, Men

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• And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.

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  Lows, Cases, Worst

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.65

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• The ear and the eye are the mind's receivers; but the tongue is only busy in expending the treasures received. It, therefore, the revenues of the mind be uttered as fast or faster than they are received, it must needs be bare, and can never lay up for purchase.

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  Eye, Mind, Needs

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• I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist

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  Adventure, Lists, Firsts

  'Virgidemiae' (1597) prologue

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• The blood that is once inflamed with wine is apt to boil with rage.

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  Wine, Blood, Rage

  Joseph Hall, Thomas Smart Hughes (1831). “Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testament”, p.489

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• I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I may not break prison till I be loosed by death; but I will leave it, not unwillingly,when I am loosed.

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  Death, Christian, Blessing

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.26

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• Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear not.

  Joseph Hall

  Troops, Crowds, Sometimes

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.83

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• Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced.

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  Ambition, Humility, Pride

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• Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election.

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  Order, Calling, Firsts

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Containing forty-three sermons”, p.594

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• There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be.

  Joseph Hall

  Sea, Earth, Pearls

  Joseph Hall (1860). “Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments”, p.65

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• It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears

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  Ears, Tongue, Shame

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “Works: Practical works”, p.281

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