Jeremy Taylor – Purpee Quotes

It is impossible to make people understand

Posted on June 14, 2018June 14, 2005 by admin

“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

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Category: knowledge
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He that loves not his wife and

Posted on July 12, 2017July 12, 2012 by admin

“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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Category: marriage
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If anger proceeds from a great cause,

Posted on June 8, 2017June 8, 2012 by admin

“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

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Category: anger
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Love is friendship set on fire.

Posted on May 2, 2016May 2, 2011 by admin

“Love is friendship set on fire.”

— Jeremy Taylor

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Category: friendship
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When you lie down with a short

Posted on April 22, 2016April 22, 2011 by admin

“When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.”

— Jeremy Taylor

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Category: trust
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