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“So little in his purse, so much upon his back.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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Joseph Hall (1 July 15748 September 1656) was an English bishop, satirist and moralist. His contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, and a high-profile controversialist of the early 1640s. In church politics, he tended in fact to a middle way.
