Jeremy Taylor famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
-- Jeremy Taylor

#Life #Time #Men
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
-- Jeremy Taylor

#Break Up #Revenge #Men
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
-- Jeremy Taylor

#Meditation #Soul #Tongue
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
-- Jeremy Taylor

#Love #Marriage #Wedding
Dive on them and squash them if you must.
-- Jeremy Taylor

#Squash
Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
-- Jeremy Taylor

#Men #Opinion #Anticipation
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
-- Jeremy Taylor

#Friendship #Secret #Secrecy
A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
-- Jeremy Taylor

#Heart #Apples #Celibacy
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
-- Jeremy Taylor

#Ignorance #Humility #People
Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
-- Jeremy Taylor

#Beautiful #Daughter #Mother

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