Joseph Hall
10 quotes.
Quotes by Joseph Hall
- A good heart will rather lie low in the dust, than rise to the greatest height by wickedness.
- Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. Therefore live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it are desperate.
- He is great enough that is his own master.
- I have learned more of God, and of myself, by one week's suffering than by all the prosperity of a long lifetime.
- I will esteem a dram of goodness worth a whole world of greatness.
- Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.
- Sweat is the destiny of all trades, whether of the brows or of the mind. God never allowed any man to do nothing.
- There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.
- Things should not be done by halves; if it be right, do it boldly; if it be wrong, leave it undone. Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated.
- Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate.