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Data de nascimento: 1. Julho 1574
Data de falecimento: 8. Setembro 1656
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„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.“
— Joseph Hall
Three Centuries of Meditations and Vowes century III, LIX.
„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.“
— Joseph Hall
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.“
— Joseph Hall
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.“
— Joseph Hall
Christian Moderation, introduction.
„So little in his purse, so much upon his back.“
— Joseph Hall
Portrait of a Poor Gallant.
„Perfection is the child of time…“
— Joseph Hall
Quo vadis? A just Censure of Travel (1617).
„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.“
— Joseph Hall
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 532.
„A legal thief, a bloodless murderer,
A fiend incarnate, a false usurer.“
— Joseph Hall
Virgidemarium (1598) IV.
