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Joseph Hall [1574-1656] English
Rank: 111
Clergyman, Writer


Joseph Hall was an English bishop, satirist and moralist. His contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, and a high-profile controversialist of the early 1640s. In church politics, he tended in fact to a middle way.
Thomas Fuller wrote:

Death, Time



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Perfection is the child of time. Time
101
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. Death
102
We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.
103
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
104
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
105
Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.
106
He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.
107
And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.
108
A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.
109
What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!
110
He is great enough that is his own master.
111
Let me know myself; let others guess at me.
112

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