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Men Quotes by Joseph Hall
- Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when…
- No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will not do him the favour…
- He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.
- 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…
- A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.
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