Jeremy Taylor Quotes About Virtue
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Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
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For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens.
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When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayer should be the rule of your life; every petition to God is a precept to man. Look not, therefore, upon your prayers as a method of good and salvation only, but as a perpetual monition of duty. By what we require of God we see what he requires of us.
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A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety.
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Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.
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