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Quote by Joseph Hall

“A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.”

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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

“God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; they know not God that think to please Him with making themselves miserable. The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut and lance themselves; never any holy man looked for thanks from the true God by wronging himself.”

Thinking Knows Men Happiness Cutting Fit Holy Please Creatures Delight Thanks Miserable God Love True God Holy Man

Book:The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Contemplations

Source: The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Contemplations

“This field is so spacious that it were easy for a man to lose himself in it; and if I should spend all my pilgrimage in this walk, my time would sooner end than my way.”

Ifs Men Way Should Ends Easy Loses Walks Fields My Way My Time Quotations Pilgrimage

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

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

“Not only commission makes a sin. A man is guilty of all those sins he hateth not. If I cannot avoid all, yet I will hate all.”

Ifs Men Hate Sin Guilty

Book:Works: Devotional works

Source: Works: Devotional works

“There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.”

Ifs Mouths Ears Slander

Book:Devotions, Sacred Aphorisms and Religious Table Talk: Selected from the Writings of the Eminently Pious and Learned Bishop Hall ; to which is Prefixed a Brief Memoir of the Author

Source: Devotions, Sacred Aphorisms and Religious Table Talk: Selected from the Writings of the Eminently Pious and Learned Bishop Hall ; to which is Prefixed a Brief Memoir of the Author

“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.”

Men Christian Together Evil Society Accounts Sticks Melancholy Solitary Fellowship Doing Good Kindles Bundles Provocation Solitary Man

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

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

“Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.”

Soul Society Atmosphere

Author:Joseph Hall

“Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear not.”

Sometimes Virtue Crowds Thick Troops

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

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

“I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.”