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Jeremy Taylor Quotes
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Famous Jeremy Taylor Quotations
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Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 13 August 1667) was a clergyman in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of expression and was often presented as a model of prose writing. He is remembered in the Church of England's calendar of saints with a Lesser Festival on 13 August
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- Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds. Jeremy Taylor »
- 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 »
- Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power. Jeremy Taylor »
- Love is friendship set on fire. Jeremy Taylor »
- Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. Jeremy Taylor »
- Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life. Jeremy Taylor »
- No sin is small. Jeremy Taylor »
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