Joseph Hall frases e citações
Joseph Hall: Frases em inglês
Three Centuries of Meditations and Vowes century III, LIX.
Contemplations, Book VI, "The Veil of Moses". Compare: "Full many a gem of purest ray serene / The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear", Thomas Gray, Elegy, stanza 14.
“Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.”
Epistles, Decade III, epistle 2. Compare: "And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb./Our birth is nothing but our death begun", Edward Young, Night Thoughts, night v., line 718.
“Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.”
Christian Moderation, introduction.
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 532.