Top 90 Jeremy Taylor Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.”

— Jeremy Taylor

52. “Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.”

— Jeremy Taylor

53. “So are the early unions of an unfixed Marriage: watchful and observant, jealous and busy, inquisitive and careful, and apt to take alarm at every unkind word. For infirmities do not manifest themselves in the first Scenes, but in the succession of a long Society.”

— Jeremy Taylor

54. “Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.”

— Jeremy Taylor

55. “To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.”

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56. “So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.”

— Jeremy Taylor

57. “To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.”

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58. “Faith gives new light to the soul, but it does not put our eyes out; and what God hathgivenusinournature could never be intended as a snare to Religion, or engage us to believe a lie.”

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59. “The Lord’s Prayer is short and mysterious, and, like the treasures of the Spirit, full of wisdom and latent senses: it is not improper to draw forth those excellencies which are intended and signified by every petition, that by so excellent an authority we may know what it is lawful to beg of God.”

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60. “Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.”

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61. “Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for which God hath given us the use of drink.”

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62. “In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.”

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

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64. “Man and wife are equally concerned, to avoid all offence of each other, in the beginning of their conversation. Every little thing can blast an infant blossom.”

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65. “Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.”

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66. “The body of our prayer is the sum of our duty; and as we must ask of God whatsoever we need, so we must watch and labor for all that we ask.”

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67. “To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man’s liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.”

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68. “The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed.”

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69. “The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did; saying that which is made, is, and that which made it, is not. But this folly is infinite as hell, as much without light or bound as the chaos or the primitive nothing.”

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70. “An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.”

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71. “This temporal fire is but a painted fire in respect of that penetrating and real fire in hell.”

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72. “Faith converses with the angels, and antedates the hymns of glory.”

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73. “The greatest evils, are from within us; and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good.”

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74. “Dive on them and squash them if you must.”

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75. “In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with you in the days of ordinary conversation and in the circumstances of secular employment.”

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76. “Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.”

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

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78. “Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds...”

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79. “Certain it is, that as nothing can better do it; so there is nothing greater, for which God made our tongues, next to reciting His praises, than to minister comfort to a weary soul.”

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80. “De Waal’s argument is, I believe, one of the most egregious fallacies in studies of evolution. It is to claim that, simply because we are closely related genetically, we must be closely related behaviourally.”

— Jeremy Taylor

81. “A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.”

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82. “Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.”

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83. “God fails not to sow blessings in the furrows.”

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84. “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.”

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85. “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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86. “It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.”

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87. “He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.”

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88. “The private devotions and secret offices of religion are like the refreshing of a garden with the distilling and petty drops of a waterpot; but addressed from the temple, they are like ram from heaven.”

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89. “In the morning, when you awake, accustom yourself to think first upon God, or something in order to his service; and at night also, let him close thine eyes and let your sleep be necessary and healthful, not idle and expensive of time, beyond the needs and conveniences of nature;.”

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90. “Idleness is the greatest prodigality in the world it throws away that, which is invaluable in respect of its present use, and irreparable when it is past, being to be recovered by no power of art or nature.”

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91. “Never talk with any man, or undertake any trifling employment, merely to pass the time away; for every day well spent may become a “day of salvation,” and time rightly employed is an “acceptable time.” And remember, that the time thou triflest away, was given thee to repent in, to pray for pardon of sins, to work out thy salvation, to do the work of grace, to lay up against the day of judgment a treasure of good works, that thy time may be crowned with eternity.”

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92. “Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.”

— Jeremy Taylor