Joseph Hall Quotes
An English bishop and satirist.
(1574 - 1656)
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A charitable untruth, an uncharitable truth, and an unwise management of truth or love, are all to be carefully avoided of him that would go with a right foot in the narrow way.
[Truth]
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A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men to their friends.
[Goodness]
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A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
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An evil man is clay to God, and wax to the devil; a good man is God's wax, and Satan's clay.
[Man]
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As in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works.
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Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
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Death did not first strike Adam, the first sinful man, nor Cain, the first hypocrite, but Abel, the innocent and righteous. - The first soul that met death overcame death; the first soul parted from earth went to heaven. - Death argues not displeasure, because he whom God loved best dies first, and the murderer is punished with living.
[Death]
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Emulation, in the sense of a laudable amoition, is founded on humility, for it implies that we have a low opinion of our present, and think it necessary to advance and make improvement.
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Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. Therefore live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it are desperate.
[One Day]
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Everyone would have something, such perhaps as we are ashamed to utter. The proud man would have honor; the covetous man, wealth and abundance; the malicious, revenge on his enemies; the epicure, pleasure and long life; the barren, children; the wanton, beauty; each would be humored in his own desire, though in opposition both to God's will, and his own good.
[Desire]
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Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to the end, to judge of the act. Let me look to the act, and leave the end with God.
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For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.
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Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken. - Such is man's good name when once tainted with just reproach.
[Reputation]
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Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.
[Prayer]
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He is great enough that is his own master.
[Greatness]
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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.
[Care]
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Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.
[Heaven]
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I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows; at midday, when he is highest, none at all.
[Learning]
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I never love those salamanders that are never well but when they are in the fire of contention. - I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. - I have always found that to strive with a superior, is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness.
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I would fain know all that I need, and all that I may. - I leave God's secrets to himself. - It is happy for me that God makes me of his court, and not of his council.
[Mystery]
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