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Bishop Hall

1574 AD — 1656 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Christian Moderation
Epistles
Contemplations
Covetousness · anthology attribution: Bishop Hall
Fools · anthology attribution: Bishop Hall
Goodness · anthology attribution: Bishop Hall
Happiness · anthology attribution: Bishop Hall
Infidelity · anthology attribution: Bishop Hall
Knowledge · anthology attribution: Bishop Hall
Quarrels · anthology attribution: Bishop Hall
Printed citation: Bishop Hall
Printed page 169 · quotation 1 · Bishop Hall · Epistles

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01c. 1615 AD

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

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02c. 1615 AD

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

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03c. 1615 AD

There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be.

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04Undated

Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

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05Undated

Surely he is not a fool that hath unwise thoughts, but he that utters them.

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06Undated

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.

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07Undated

God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; they know not God that think to please Him with making themselves miserable. The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut and lance themselves; never any holy man looked for thanks from the true God by wronging himself.

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08Undated

Infidelity and faith look both through the perspective glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees those objects near which are afar off, and makes great things little,—diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils. Faith looks at the right end, and brings the blessings that are far off in time close to our eye, and multiplies God's mercies, which, in a distance, lost their greatness.

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09Undated

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

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10Undated

I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness.

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11Undated

The hypocrite shows well and says well, and himself is the worst thing he hath.

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12Undated

Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate.

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13Undated

Death borders upon our birth; and our cradle stands in our grave.

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