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The private and personal blessings we enjoy-the blessings of immunity safeguard liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.Jeremy Taylor
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Friendship is the allay of our sorrows the ease of our passions the discharge of our oppression the sanctuary of our calamities the counselor of our doubts the clarity of our minds the emission of our thoughts the exercise and improvement of what we dedicate.Jeremy Taylor
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Teach us to pray often that we may pray oftener.Jeremy Taylor
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Love is friendship set on fire.Jeremy Taylor
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A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.Jeremy Taylor
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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
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The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.Jeremy Taylor
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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.Jeremy Taylor
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He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.Jeremy Taylor
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Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.Jeremy Taylor
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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
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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