"It is of no small commendation to manage……" — Joseph Hall
"It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of the person. I will study more how to give a good account of my little, than how to make it more."
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49 Quotes by Joseph Hall
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Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be…
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Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees…
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Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should…
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Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men…
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No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will…
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Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the…
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I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my…
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Satan would seem to be mannerly and reasonable; making as if he would be content with one-half of the heart,…
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It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest,…
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Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing…
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He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.
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What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive…
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Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
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Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level.
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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When a man is to travel into a far country...one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a…
— Richard Sibbes
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What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort,…
— Rudy Giuliani
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It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your…
— Cesar Chavez
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Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
— E. O. Wilson
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Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?
— Henry David Thoreau
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