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1. "there are sicknesses that walk in darkness, and there are exterminating angels who fly wrapt up in the curtains of immateriality and an uncommunicating nature; whom we cannot see but we feel their foorce and sink under their sword." ~ Jeremy Taylor
2. "Love is friendship set on fire." ~ Jeremy Taylor
3. "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
4. "He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows." ~ Jeremy Taylor
5. "Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit." ~ Jeremy Taylor
6. "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
7. "A religion without mystery must be a religion without God." ~ Jeremy Taylor
8. "Secrecy is the chastity of friendship." ~ Jeremy Taylor
9. "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
10. "The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge." ~ Jeremy Taylor
11. "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
12. "Dive on them and squash them if you must." ~ Jeremy Taylor
13. "God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends." ~ Jeremy Taylor
14. "Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth." ~ Jeremy Taylor
15. "To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance." ~ Jeremy Taylor
16. "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
17. "He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together." ~ Jeremy Taylor
18. "No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition." ~ Jeremy Taylor
19. "Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit." ~ Jeremy Taylor
20. "Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward." ~ Jeremy Taylor
21. "Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend." ~ Jeremy Taylor
22. "Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself." ~ Jeremy Taylor

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One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has accustomed them to obedience, and experience has made them cautious in their conversation with their teachers. Will you not draw from this the fine maxim that one should not scold children too much, but should make them trustful, so that they will not conceal their stupidities from us?"
Author: Catherine The Great

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