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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

When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity. ↗

— James Taylor

#activity #ago #any #cleaned #felt

When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical. ↗

— James Taylor

#almost #come #comes #may #melancholy

Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother. ↗

— Jane Taylor

#help #i #kiss #make #me

Love is friendship set on fire. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#friendship #love #love is #set

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#certain #conscience #god #good #him

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. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#anger #cause #either #fury #great

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#desires #does #fortune #full #himself

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#ignorance #learning #proud

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#direct #spirit