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• We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures, when we envy the happiness of rich and great men; we know not the inward canker that eats out all their joy and delight, and makes them really much more miserable than ourselves.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Envy, Joy

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• How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!

  Joseph Hall

  Hate, Calling, Holiness

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.505

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• For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest.

  Joseph Hall

  Mean, Guests, Welcome

  Joseph Hall (1839). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Miscellaneous works; Poetical works: Appendix; indices, etc”, p.195

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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.

  Joseph Hall

  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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• 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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• There is no word or action but may be taken with two hands,--either with the right hand of charitable construction, or the sinister interpretation of malice and suspicion; and all things do succeed as they are taken. To construe an evil, action well is but a pleasing and profitable deceit to myself; but to misconstrue a good thing is a treble wrong,--to myself, the action, and the author.

  Joseph Hall

  Taken, Hands, Two

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.89

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• Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Glasses, Names

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.23

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

  Joseph Hall

  Procrastination, Purpose, Deathbed

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

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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.

  Joseph Hall

  Eye, Mind, Needs

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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.

  Joseph Hall

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

  Joseph Hall

  Ears, Tongue, Shame

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

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

  Joseph Hall

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

  Joseph Hall

  Adventure, Lists, Firsts

  'Virgidemiae' (1597) prologue

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

  Joseph Hall

  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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• 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.

  Joseph Hall

  Ambition, Humility, Pride

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