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Jeremy Taylor, a renowned English author, was born on August 15, 1613, and passed away on August 13, 1667. His works, primarily focused on religion and philosophy, have been highly appreciated by readers.

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“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.”

Ifs Wealth Mines Fool Proud Gold Riches Neighbor Inferiors Exalted

Book:The Works of Jeremy Taylor

Source: The Works of Jeremy Taylor

“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.”

Ifs Persons Soul Body Easy Space Benefits Devil Labor Driving Lust Employment Ease Emptiness Idle Severe Tempted Idleness Creeps Unemployed Chaste Driving Away

Author:Jeremy Taylor

“Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them; and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly: for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.”

Ifs Evil Enjoy Born Bears Blessing Yesterday This Day Morrow

Book:The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings

Source: The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings

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

Ifs Needs Trouble Thorns Bundles

Author:Jeremy Taylor

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Men Want Doe Desire Poor Conditions Fortune Patient Be Patient Impatience

Book:The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings

Source: The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings

“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.”

Ifs Turns Causes Terrible Anger Ridiculous Fury

Book:The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying: Together with Prayers and Acts of Virtue, and Rules for the Visitation of the Sick, and Offices Proper for that Ministry

Source: The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying: Together with Prayers and Acts of Virtue, and Rules for the Visitation of the Sick, and Offices Proper for that Ministry

“Mercy is like the rainbow, which God hath set in the clouds; it never shines after it is night. If we refuse mercy here, we shall have justice in eternity.”

Ifs Night Justice Mercy Eternity Shining Clouds Refuse Rainbow

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“Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face.”

Ifs Ends Faces Pleasure Laughing Laughter Loud Tails Sigh

Author:Jeremy Taylor

“Dive on them and squash them if you must.”

Ifs Squash

Author:Jeremy Taylor