"When you lie down with a short prayer,……" — Jeremy Taylor
"When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying."
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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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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the…
— Teresa of Avila
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Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history…
— Joe Baca
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The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that…
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It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush…
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All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you…
— Christian Bale
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing…
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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did…
— John Adams
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Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to…
— Annie Besant
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It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend…
— Josh Billings
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Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
— Aesop
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Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it…
— Jo Brand
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