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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.
Owen Feltham
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Owen Feltham
Died: 1668
Died: January 1
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.
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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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Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.
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God has made no one absolute.
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Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.
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Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.
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I love the man that is modestly valiant that stirs not till he most needs, and then to purpose. A continued patience I commend not.
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Virtue is the truest liberty.
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Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.
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Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment
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Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.
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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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For converse among men, beautiful persons have less need of the mind's commending qualities. Beauty in itself is such a silent orator, that it is ever pleading for respect and liking, and by the eyes of others is ever sending, to their hearts for love.
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The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.
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A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.
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When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.
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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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.
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