"Habits are the daughters of action, but then……" — Jeremy Taylor
"Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous."
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Jeremy Taylor
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34 Quotes by Jeremy Taylor
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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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A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and…
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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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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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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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