Jeremy Taylor

Love is friendship, set on fire

love


Jeremy Taylor

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

alone


Jeremy Taylor

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury if from a small cause, it is peevishness and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

anger


Jeremy Taylor

Love is friendship set on fire.

friendship


Jeremy Taylor

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

friendship


Jeremy Taylor

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

home


Jeremy Taylor

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

knowledge


Jeremy Taylor

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

knowledge


Jeremy Taylor

Love is friendship set on fire.

love


Jeremy Taylor

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

marriage


Jeremy Taylor

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

marriage


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