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Joseph Hall
10 quotes
“A legal thief, a bloodless murderer, A fiend incarnate, a false usurer.”
Joseph Hall (1574–1656) first seen 1598 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Virgidemarium (1598) IV.
“So little in his purse, so much upon his back.”
Joseph Hall (1574–1656) said by 1656 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'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 (1574–1656) said by 1656 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.”
Joseph Hall (1574–1656) said by 1656 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Bishop Hall
“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 (1574–1656) said by 1656 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Bishop Hall
“Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.”
Joseph Hall (1574–1656) said by 1656 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Bishop Hall
“Perfection is the child of time…”
Joseph Hall (1574–1656) first seen 1617 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quo vadis? A just Censure of Travel (1617).
“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 (1574–1656) said by 1656 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1574–1656) said by 1656 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 532.
“I first adventure: follow me who list, And be the second Eastern Melodist”
Joseph Hall (1574–1656) said by 1656 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in John Mason Neale, Hymns of the Eastern Church, 3rd ed. (1870), Preface to the First Edition, p. 18