Joseph Hall Quotes
1574–1656 England
Joseph Hall (July 1, 1574 – September 8, 1656) was an English bishop and satirist.
Also known as: Bishop Hall, Hall, Joseph
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Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence.
There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be.
The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.
He is wealthy enough, that wanteth not: he is great enough, that is his own master: he is happy enough, that lives to die well.
He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares on God; He hath bidden me; they cannot burden Him.
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
The idle man is the devil's cushion.
How easy it is for men to be swollen with admiration of their own strength and glory, and to be lifted up so high as to lose sight both of the ground whence they rose, and the hand that advanced them.
So little in his purse, so much upon his back.
Fond fool! six feet shall serve for all thy store,
And he that cares for most shall find no more.
Perfection is the child of time…
Quo vadis? A just Censure of Travel (1617)
'Mongst all these stirs of discontented strife,
O, let me lead an academic life;
To know much, and to think for nothing, know
Nothing to have, yet think we have enow.
I first adventure: follow me who list,
And be the second Eastern Melodist