Author

Jeremy Taylor

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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.”— Jeremy Taylor
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“If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury if from a small cause, it is peevishness and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.”— Jeremy Taylor
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“Love is friendship set on fire.”— Jeremy Taylor
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“Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.”— Jeremy Taylor
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“He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.”— Jeremy Taylor
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“It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.”— Jeremy Taylor
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“The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.”— Jeremy Taylor
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“To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.”— Jeremy Taylor
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“Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.”— Jeremy Taylor
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“A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.”— Jeremy Taylor
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“When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.”— Jeremy Taylor