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Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment
Owen Feltham
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Owen Feltham
Died: 1668
Died: January 1
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How many would die did not hope sustain them.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.
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Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it.
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We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.
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That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs.
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By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.
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Any man shall speak the better when he knows what others have said, and sometimes the consciousness of his inward knowledge gives a confidence to his outward behavior, which of all other is the best thing to grace a man in his carriage.
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Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.
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Fear, if it be not immoderate, puts a guard about us that does watch and defend us but credulity keeps us naked, and lays us open to all the sly assaults of ill-intending men: it was a virtue when man was in his innocence but since his fall, it abuses those that own it.
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It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.
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Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.
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All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.
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It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.
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