Author: Jeremy Taylor

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

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

- Jeremy Taylor

Love is friendship set on fire.

Love is friendship set on fire.

- Jeremy Taylor

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

- Jeremy Taylor

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

- Jeremy Taylor

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.

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

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

- Jeremy Taylor

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

- Jeremy Taylor

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.

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

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

- Jeremy Taylor

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