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Letter "J" » Jeremy Taylor Quotes
«Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house, and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labors and unites»
Author: Jeremy Taylor
(Bishop, Clergyman, Writer)
| About:
Celibacy,
Marriage,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
bee, builds, celibacy, confined, dwelling house, dwells, gathers, labors, singularities, singularity, sits, sweetness, The Fly, unites
«A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and sweet carriage; sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding; love of God and self-denial; peace and confidence; hol»
Author: Jeremy Taylor
(Bishop, Clergyman, Writer)
| Keywords:
carriage, carriages, chaste, counsels, deportment, ingenuous, self-denial, unprejudiced
«Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.»
Author: Jeremy Taylor
(Bishop, Clergyman, Writer)
| Keywords:
enclose, enclosed, fairer, inquisitions, pleasure principle, ravish, refused, the Inquisition
«Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.»
Author: Jeremy Taylor
(Bishop, Clergyman, Writer)
| About:
Marriage
| Keywords:
churches, kingdoms, mother church, preserves
«He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.»
«Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.»
«Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue»
Author: Jeremy Taylor
(Bishop, Clergyman, Writer)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
fearful, name of God, sacrilege
«A religion without mystery must be a religion without God»
«He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together»
«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.»
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