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• Infidelity and faith look both through the perspective glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees those objects near which are afar off, and makes great things little,-diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils. Faith looks at the right end, and brings the blessings that are far off in time close to our eye, and multiplies God's mercies, which, in a distance, lost their greatness.

  Joseph Hall

  Spiritual, Distance, Eye

  Joseph Hall (1837). “Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings”, p.154

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• That which the French proverb hath of sickness is true of all evils, that they come on horseback, and go away on foot; we have often seen a sudden fall or one meal's surfeit hath stuck by many to their graves; whereas pleasures come like oxen, slow, and heavily, and go away like post-horses, upon the spur.

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  Horse, Fall, Oxen

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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.

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  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!

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  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.

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  Mean, Guests, Welcome

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

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• A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.

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  Men, Opinion

  Joseph Hall (1808). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works”, p.65

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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.

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  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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• 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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• ...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.

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  Gratitude, Covetousness

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.34

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• The idle man is the Devil's cushion, on which he taketh his free ease: who, as he is uncapable of any good, so he is fitly disposed for all evil motions.

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  Men, Evil, Ease

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.60

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• Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself.

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  Evil, Unity, Neutrality

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• Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.

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  Passion, Men, Fool

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• This field is so spacious that it were easy for a man to lose himself in it; and if I should spend all my pilgrimage in this walk, my time would sooner end than my way.

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  Men, Way, Fields

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Practical works”, p.13

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• God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; they know not God that think to please Him with making themselves miserable. The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut and lance themselves; never any holy man looked for thanks from the true God by wronging himself.

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  Happiness, Cutting, Men

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Contemplations”, p.12

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• Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

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  Nice, Greatness, Contentment

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “to xviii”, p.16

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• I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.

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  Vanity, Together, Mets

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.10

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• The idle man is the devil's cushion.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Devil, Laziness

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “Works: Devotional works”, p.60

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