"No man is poor who does not think……" — Jeremy Taylor
"No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition."
—
Jeremy Taylor
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
34 Quotes by Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor has 34 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with…
-
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
-
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
-
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that…
-
A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and…
-
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
-
Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
-
Dive on them and squash them if you must.
-
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
-
Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far…
-
Love is friendship set on fire.
-
Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
See all 34 quotes by Jeremy Taylor »
More Beggarly Quotes
This quote is filed under Beggarly Quotes,
one of 12 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The beggarly last doit.
— William Cowper
-
How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
— Walt Whitman
-
When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy,…
— James Russell Lowell
-
Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a…
— Samuel Johnson
-
A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
-
When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost…
— Rabindranath Tagore
-
The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it,…
— Thomas Hardy
-
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
— Arthur Murphy
-
In my experience, only third-rate intelligence is sent to Legislatures to make laws, because the first-rate article will not leave…
— Mark Twain
-
He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and…
— James Allen
-
Today festival is a big burden for beggarly humans.Mak_786
— Mak_786
See all 12 Beggarly Quotes »