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Joseph Hall Quotes (1574-1656)
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Joseph Hall (July 1, 1574 β September 8, 1656) was an English bishop and satirist.
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βPerfection is the child of timeβ¦β
βSo little in his purse, so much upon his back.β
βDeath borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.β
βA legal thief, a bloodless murderer,
A fiend incarnate, a false usurer.β
A fiend incarnate, a false usurer.β
βModeration is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.β
βHe is wealthy enough, that wanteth not: he is great enough, that is his own master: he is happy enough, that lives to die well.β
β'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.β
O, let me lead an academic life;
To know much, and to think for nothing, know
Nothing to have, yet think we have enow.β
βHow 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.β
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Joseph Hall on Guests
Joseph Hall on Anger
Joseph Hall on Grave (burial)
βFond fool! six feet shall serve for all thy store, And he that cares for most shall find no more.β
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Joseph Hall on Stone
βThere 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 ever shall be.β
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Joseph Hall on Laurence Minot
βHis direct historical value is small; though he preserves now and then a curious detail which has escaped the contemporaneous English Chroniclers, he adds little to our store of facts about the wars of the third Edward. But he is the abstract of the spirit of his time, its undoubted bravery, its glitter, its savagery, its complete absence of pity for the conquered. The greatest merit of his poems lies in their warm and spontaneous expression of national feeling. His predecessors in the political poem had attacked abuses, exposed grievances, or written in the service of a faction. He is the first to speak in the name of the English nation just awakened to a consciousness of its unity and strength.β
About Joseph Hall
Joseph Hall (July 1, 1574 β September 8, 1656) was an English bishop and satirist.