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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.”

Joseph Hall

“Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.”

Joseph Hall

Christian Moderation, introduction.

“So little in his purse, so much upon his back.”

Joseph Hall

Portrait of a Poor Gallant.

“Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.”

Joseph Hall

Epistles, Decade III, epistle 2. Compare: "And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb./Our birth is nothing but our death begun", Edward Young, Night Thoughts, night v., line 718.

“Perfection is the child of time…”

Joseph Hall

Quo vadis? A just Censure of Travel (1617).

“A legal thief, a bloodless murderer,
A fiend incarnate, a false usurer.”

Joseph Hall

Virgidemarium (1598) IV.

Joseph Hall Quotes

“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.”

Joseph Hall

Three Centuries of Meditations and Vowes century III, LIX.

Happiness

“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.”

Joseph Hall

Contemplations, Book VI, "The Veil of Moses". Compare: "Full many a gem of purest ray serene / The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear", Thomas Gray, Elegy, stanza 14.

Sea

“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.”

Joseph Hall

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 532.

Men

“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.”

Joseph Hall

Discontent of Men with Their Condition.

Life , Thinking