Joseph Hall Quotes


Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.


Citations

Hall, Joseph. Meditations and Vows Divine and Moral. The Works of the Right Reverend Joseph Hall, D.D., edited by Philip Wynter, Oxford UP, 1863.

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Joseph Hall
Joseph Hall
  • Born: July 1, 1574
  • Died: September 8, 1656
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Clergyman

Joseph Hall 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.