Jeremy Taylor Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	He would lead must first himself be led. Who would be loved be capable of love. Beyond the utmost he receives, who claims the roof of power must have bowed. Any being honored, honor what's above. This know the men who leave the world their names.	Leadership
2	Though compliments should arise naturally out of the occasion, they should not appear to be prompted by the spur of it, for then they seem hardly spontaneous. Applaud a man's speech at the moment when he sits down and he will take your compliment as exacted by the demands of common civility; but let some space intervene, and then show him that the merits of his speech have dwelt with you, and he will remember your compliment for a much longer time than you have remembered his speech.	Compliment
3	He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend.	Repentance
4	Do not have your concert first and tune your instruments afterwards. Begin the day with God.	Prayer
5	An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.	Abstinence
6	Many secrets of religion are not perceived till they be felt, and are not felt but in the day of a great calamity.	Adversity
7	What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!	Chance
8	In sickness the soul begins to dress herself for immortality. And first she unties the strings of vanity that make her upper garments cleave to the world and sit uneasy.	Disease
9	To be proud of learning, is the greatest ignorance.	Education
10	Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.	Error

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