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The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works

Book by Joseph Hall · 11 quotes · Men, Accounts, Blessing

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The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works Quotes

“Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.”

“Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but, again, fewest incitations to good. So much as doing good is better than not doing evil will I account Christian good-fellowship better than an hermitish and melancholy solitariness.”

“I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I may not break prison till I be loosed by death; but I will leave it, not unwillingly,when I am loosed.”