Joseph Hall

Quotes

• “A legal thief, a bloodless murderer,A fiend incarnate, a false usurer.”
• “So little in his purse, so much upon his back.”
• “'Mongst all these stirs of discontented strife,O, let me lead an academic life;To know much, and to think for nothing, knowNothing to have, yet think we have enow.”
• “Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.”
• “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.”
• “Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.”

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