"Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of……" — Jeremy Taylor
"Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house, and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labors and unites into societies and republics, and sends out colonies, and feeds the world with delicacies, and keeps order, and exercises many virtues, and promotes the interest of mankind, and is that state of good to which God hath designed the present constitution of the world."
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34 Quotes by Jeremy Taylor
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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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