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  • Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.

  • Man and wife are equally concerned, to avoid all offence of each other, in the beginning of their conversation. Every little thing can blast an infant blossom.

    Thomas Smart Hughes, Thomas Sherlock, Jeremy Taylor (1837). “Summaries of the sermons and discourses of Sherlock and Jeremy Taylor”, p.309
  • So are the early unions of an unfixed Marriage: watchful and observant, jealous and busy, inquisitive and careful, and apt to take alarm at every unkind word. For infirmities do not manifest themselves in the first Scenes, but in the succession of a long Society.

    Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1848). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, Lord Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore: Sermons”, p.216
  • He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.

    Heart  
    Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1854). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Clerus domini. Office ministerial. Discourse of friendship. Rules and advices to the clergy. Life”, p.85
  • God is everywhere present by His power. He rolls the orbs of heaven with His hand; He fixes the earth with His foot; He guides all creatures with His eye, and refreshes them with His influence; He makes the powers of hell to shake with His terrors, and binds the devils with His word.

    Jeremy Taylor (1954). “The House of Understanding: Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Taylor by Margaret Gest”
  • No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

    Love   Children   Heart  
    Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1856). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Clerus domini. Office ministerial. Discourse of friendship. Rules and advices to the clergy. Heber's Life of Bp. Taylor, and indexes to the ten volumes”, p.63
  • Love is friendship set on fire. Hate is friendship burned.

  • Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.

    Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1848). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons”, p.138
  • The pharisees minded what God spoke, but not what He intended. They were busy in the outward work of the hand, but incurious of the affections and choice of the heart. So God was served in the letter, they did not much inquire into His purpose; and therefore they were curious to wash their hands, but cared not to purify their hearts.

    Heart  
  • If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it.

  • In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with you in the days of ordinary conversation and in the circumstances of secular employment.

    Jeremy Taylor (1851). “Readings for every day in Lent”, p.45
  • God fails not to sow blessings in the furrows.

    Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1856). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying”, p.100
  • This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious.

    Jeremy Taylor, Thomas Smart Hughes (1831). “The Works of Jeremy Taylor”, p.53
  • I have seen the sun with a little ray of distant light challenge all the powers of darkness, and without violence and noise, climbing up the hill, hath made night so retire that its memory was lost in the joys and sprightliness of the morning.

  • This temporal fire is but a painted fire in respect of that penetrating and real fire in hell.

    Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1822). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D. ...: With a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings,”, p.522
  • Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.

  • ...Learn to give thanks for everything.

    Giving  
  • He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.

    Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Alexander Taylor (1861). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor”, p.9
  • Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.

    Jeremy Taylor (1847). “The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living”, p.127
  • Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every step of its descent is like a rib of iron.

    Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Life of Christ”, p.527
  • He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

    Jeremy Taylor, Thomas Smart Hughes (1831). “The Works of Jeremy Taylor”, p.113
  • The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did; saying that which is made, is, and that which made it, is not. But this folly is infinite as hell, as much without light or bound as the chaos or the primitive nothing.

    Jeremy Taylor (1841). “The Whole Sermons of Jeremy Taylor ...: And, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living and Holy Dying : with a Biographical Memoir”, p.310
  • A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

    Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1856). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying”, p.185
  • By friendship you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the most open communication, the noblest sufferings, the severest truth, the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds which brave men and women are capable.

    Heart  
  • A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.

    Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.362
  • All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

    Heart  
    Jeremy Taylor (1849). “The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life Described in the History of the Life and Death of the Ever Blessed Jesus Christ: The Saviour of the World”, p.67
  • The private and personal blessings we enjoy- the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.

  • Marriage hath in it less of beauty but more of safety, than the single life; it hath more care, but less danger, it is more merry, and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows, and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but it is supported by all the strengths of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful.

    Love   Lying   Safety  
    Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1848). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons”, p.211
  • A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and sweet carriage; sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding; love of God and self-denial; peace and confidence; hol

  • Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

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