Matthew Hale famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time.
-- Matthew Hale

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Be frugal of your time. It is one of the best jewels we have.
-- Matthew Hale

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It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.
-- Matthew Hale

#Tongue #Reputation #Praise
Every morning, read seriously and reverently a portion of the Holy Scriptures, and acquaint yourselves with the history and doctrine thereof. It is a book full of light and wisdom, will make you wise to eternal life, and furnish you with directions and principles to guide and order your life safely and prudently.
-- Matthew Hale

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The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
-- Matthew Hale

#Fashion #Vanity #Clothes
Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.
-- Matthew Hale

#Friendship #Fashion #Clothes
When rogues fall out, honest men get into their own.
-- Matthew Hale

#Honesty #Fall #Men
Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.
-- Matthew Hale

#Christian #Law #England

Enjoy every minute. There's plenty of time to be dead.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.
This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.
The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.
The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
I want certain things out of life. I want my grand kids, my kids' kids, being able to inherit what I've worked so hard to build.

Matthew Hale famous quotes

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