Quotations From JEREMY TAYLOR

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  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.

  Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667), British churchman, devotional writer. "The Marriage Ring," sermon 17, Twenty-Five Sermons (1651).
  
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  Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.

  Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667), British churchman, devotional writer. The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living, 4th edition, ch. 2, sct. 5 (1654).
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  He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

  Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667), British churchman,devotional writer. Twenty-Seven Sermons, sermon 18 (1651).
  
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  Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

  Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667), British churchman, devotional writer. "Of Lukewarmness and Zeal," sermon 14, Twenty-Five Sermons (1651).
  
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  Every schoolboy knows it.

  Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667), British churchman, devotional writer. The Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament, sct. 5 (1654). What "every schoolboy knows" is that "This thing ... that can be understood and not expressed, may take a neuter gender."