He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.
Jeremy TaylorIt is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.
Jeremy TaylorThus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at their trade. Æropus, a Macedonian king, made lanterns; Harcatius, the king of Parthia, was a mole-catcher; and Biantes, the Lydian, filed needles.
Jeremy TaylorThis temporal fire is but a painted fire in respect of that penetrating and real fire in hell.
Jeremy TaylorAvoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.
Jeremy Taylor