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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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“When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayer should be the rule of your life; every petition to God is a precept to man. Look not, therefore, upon your prayers as a method of good and salvation only, but as a perpetual monition of duty. By what we require of God we see what he requires of us.”

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“Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.”

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“A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety.”

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“Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.”

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Book:Summaries of the sermons and discourses of Sherlock and Jeremy Taylor

Source: Summaries of the sermons and discourses of Sherlock and Jeremy Taylor

“For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens.”

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Book:The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying

Source: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying