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“Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.”

Quote by Joseph Hall

Book:The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology

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The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology

This compilation includes a variety of works by Joseph Hall, covering both devotional and theological themes. The texts delve into religious contemplation and theological exploration, reflecting Hall's deep engagement with spiritual and philosophical matters. more

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Joseph Hall, a renowned English writer, was born on July 1, 1574, and died on September 8, 1656. Known for his satirical works, Hall's influence has been profound on subsequent literature and thought. more

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“As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless; so dote the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires and pruned with afflictions. If it be painful to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me be pruned, that I may grow, rather than be cut up to burn.”

Ifs Men May Running Lasts Desire Grows Cutting Weak Let Me Painful Generous Stem Affliction Vines Superfluous

Author:Joseph Hall

“Try to be of some use to others.”

Trying Use Benevolence

Author:Joseph Hall

“Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good.”

Wells Used Evil Worst Prove Ill Best Things Worst Things

Book:The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology

Source: The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology

“The malcontent is neither well, full nor fasting; and though he abounds with complaints, yet nothing dislikes him but the present; for what he condemns while it was, once passed, he magnifies and strives to recall it out of the jaw of time. What he hath he seeth not, his eyes are so taken up with what he wants; and what he sees he careth not for, because be cares so much for that which is not.”

Want Wells Eye Care Taken Strive His Eyes Dislike Recalls Complaints Strife Discontent Fasting Malcontent

Author:Joseph Hall

“Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced.”

Thinking Opinion Humility Pride Ambition Lows Envy Worldly Attainment Emulation

Author:Joseph Hall

“We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures, when we envy the happiness of rich and great men; we know not the inward canker that eats out all their joy and delight, and makes them really much more miserable than ourselves.”

Knows Men Joy Rich Delight Envy Miserable Great Men Inward Mistaken

Author:Joseph Hall

“How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!”

Persons Hate Causes Calling Raises Holiness Dislike Animosity Eminence

Book:The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology

Source: The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology

“If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.”

Ifs Men World Might Intention Judged Idolatry

Author:Joseph Hall

“The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.”

Men Running Grows Weed Negligence

Book:The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology

Source: The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology

“As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works.”

May Wind Breaths Pairs Charitable Ostentation

Book:The Works of Joseph Hall DD Successively Bishop of Exeter and Norwich: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings

Source: The Works of Joseph Hall DD Successively Bishop of Exeter and Norwich: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings