"Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than……" — Jeremy Taylor
"Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue"
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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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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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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper…
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?
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The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
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We've both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment.
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Don't be fearful about the journey ahead; don't worry about where you are going or how you are going to…
— Edith Schaeffer
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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
— Herman Melville
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The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man…
— Robert Kennedy
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Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.
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The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we…
— William James
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Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who…
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