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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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To trust God when we have securities in our iron chest is easy, but not thankworthy but to depend on him for what we cannot see, as it is more hard for man to do, so it is more acceptable to God.
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Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.
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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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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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He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word and in vain hath read the scriptures, the world, and man.
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In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.
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Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.
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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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Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment
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God has made no one absolute.
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Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and in that man I will show you one who will never be admitted into heaven.
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Virtue is the truest liberty.
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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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them. It gets the name of wilfulness when it will not admit of a lawful change to the better. Therefore constancy without knowledge cannot be always good. In things ill it is not virtue, but an absolute vice.
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Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.
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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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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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Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.
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