God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
- Jeremy Taylor
Here, Eternity, Given, Short Time
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
Small, Always, Cause, Fury
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
- Jeremy Taylor
Mother, World, Itself, Churches
Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor
Love, Friendship, Romantic, Love Is
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
Dwells, Confined, Celibate, Singularity
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
- Jeremy Taylor
Marriage, Children, His, Nest
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Jeremy Taylor
Him, Rolling, Forced, Stone
Dive on them and squash them if you must.
- Jeremy Taylor
Dive, Must, Them, Squash
He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.
- Jeremy Taylor
Thread, Zeal, His, Base
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.
- Jeremy Taylor
Think, Fortune, More, Impatience
Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
- Jeremy Taylor
Habits, More, Image, Nurse
Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
- Jeremy Taylor
Men, Conscience, Most, Anticipation
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
- Jeremy Taylor
Friendship, Secrecy, Chastity
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
- Jeremy Taylor
Truth, Apt, Prefer, Afflicted
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
Ignorance, Impossible, Requires
He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
- Jeremy Taylor
Proud, Mine, Inferior, Exalted
The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
- Jeremy Taylor
Best, Rather, Than, Theology
He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.
- Jeremy Taylor
Reason, Conscience, Against, Therefore
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
- Jeremy Taylor
Soul, Tongue, Spirit, Meditation
Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
- Jeremy Taylor
Reward, Act, Ingredient, Unto
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
- Jeremy Taylor
God, Without, Must, Mystery
Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.
- Jeremy Taylor
Work, Let Us, Whatsoever, Beg
Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.
- Jeremy Taylor
Curiosity, Spirit, Direct
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
Trust, Hands, Creator, Lie
Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
- Jeremy Taylor
Friend, Know, Also, Enemy
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
- Jeremy Taylor
Learning, Proud, Greatest, Ignorance
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