Jeremy Taylor Quotes
Top 51 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Jeremy Taylor on Wise Famous Quotes.
A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
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.
To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.
To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.
Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.
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.
The body of our prayer is the sum of our duty; and as we must ask of God whatsoever we need, so we must watch and labor for all that we ask.
It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.
Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.
From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.
Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face.
Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered By reading of one book.
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.
Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.
An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.
He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.