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Jeremy Taylor

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He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.


— Jeremy Taylor


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It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.


— Jeremy Taylor


#ignorance #impossible #knowledge #make #people

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.


— Jeremy Taylor


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Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.


— Jeremy Taylor


#break #forced #gave #greater #hath

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.


— Jeremy Taylor


#apple #celibate #confined #dies #dwells

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.


— Jeremy Taylor


#must #mystery #religion #without

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.


— Jeremy Taylor


#friendship #secrecy

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.


— Jeremy Taylor


#divine #knowledge #life #rather #than

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.


— Jeremy Taylor


#conscience #men #most #opinions #others

Love is friendship set on fire.


— Jeremy Taylor


#friendship #love #love is #set






About Jeremy Taylor






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In 1646 he is found in partnership with two other deprived clergymen keeping a school at Newton Hall in the parish of Llanfihangel Aberbythych Carmarthenshire. He would submit all minor questions to the reason of the individual member but he set certain limits to toleration excluding whatsoever is against the foundation of faith or contrary to good life and the laws of obedience or destructive to human society and the public and just interests of bodies politic. Bliss iii.

He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of expression and was often presented as a model of prose writing. He also became vice-chancellor of the University of Dublin. Jeremy Taylor (15 August 1613 – 13 August 1667) was a cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell.

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