"He that loves not his wife and children……" — Jeremy Taylor
"He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows."
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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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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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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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More Broods Quotes
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The happiest, sweetest, tenderest homes are not those where there has been no sorrow, but those which have been overshadowed…
— J.R. Miller
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A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart.
— William Wordsworth
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We attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep…
— Julian Jaynes
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Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a…
— Juvenal
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Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He…
— George Haven Putnam
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The man who broods over the past can never master the difficulties of today. Every wise man learn to forget.
— Herbert Newton Casson
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One of these days they are going to remove so much of the 'hooey' and the thousands of things the…
— Will Rogers
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And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last…
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
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It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the…
— William Wordsworth
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