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> [Gospel ministers should not only be like dials on watches, or mile-stones upon the road, but like clocks and larums, to sound the alarm to sinners. Aaron wore bells as well as pomegranates, and the prophets were commanded to lift…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-hall/gospel-ministers-should-not-only-be-like-dials-on-watches-or-mile/)

[Joseph Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-hall/)

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> [Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-hall/our-body-is-a-well-set-clock-which-keeps-good-time-but-if-it-be-too/)

[Joseph Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-hall/)

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## More by Joseph Hall

> [A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-hall/a-reputation-once-broken-may-possibly-be-repaired-but-the-world-will/)

[Joseph Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-hall/)

> [And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-hall/and-if-i-were-so-low-that-i-accounted-myself-the-worst-of-all-yet/)

[Joseph Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-hall/)

> [The life of doctrine is in application.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-hall/the-life-of-doctrine-is-in-application/)

[Joseph Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-hall/)

> [Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-hall/words-are-as-they-are-taken-and-things-are-as-they-are-used-there-are/)

[Joseph Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-hall/)

> [We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-hall/we-must-first-pray-that-god-would-make-us-wise-before-we-can-wish-he/)

[Joseph Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-hall/)

> [I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I may not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-hall/i-account-this-body-nothing-but-a-close-prison-to-my-soul-and-the/)

[Joseph Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-hall/)

> [Satan would seem to be mannerly and reasonable; making as if he would be content with one-half of the heart, whereas God challengeth all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-hall/satan-would-seem-to-be-mannerly-and-reasonable-making-as-if-he-would/)

[Joseph Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-hall/)

> [It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-hall/it-is-not-the-bee-s-touching-on-the-flowers-that-gathers-the-honey/)

[Joseph Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-hall/)

> [I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-hall/i-have-seldom-seen-much-ostentation-and-much-learning-met-together/)

[Joseph Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-hall/)

> [Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-hall/mark-in-what-order-first-our-calling-then-our-election-not-beginning/)

[Joseph Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-hall/)

> [Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-hall/fools-measure-actions-after-they-are-done-by-the-event-wise-men/)

[Joseph Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-hall/)

> [Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-hall/earthly-greatness-is-a-nice-thing-and-requires-so-much-chariness-in/)

[Joseph Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-hall/)

> [A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-hall/a-good-man-is-kinder-to-his-enemy-than-bad-men-are-to-their-friends/)

[Joseph Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-hall/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-hall/the-ear-and-the-eye-are-the-mind-s-receivers-but-the-tongue-is-only/)

[Joseph Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-hall/)

> [What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-hall/what-fools-are-we-to-be-besotted-with-the-love-of-our-own-trouble-and/)

[Joseph Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-hall/)

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