"A celibate, like the fly in the heart……" — Jeremy Taylor
"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."
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34 Quotes by Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor has 34 quotes on this site.
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Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with…
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He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
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Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
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It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that…
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Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
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Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
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Dive on them and squash them if you must.
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God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
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Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far…
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Love is friendship set on fire.
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Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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