To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.
Jeremy TaylorAdultery 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.
Jeremy TaylorDrunkenness 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.
Jeremy TaylorAquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.
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