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Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.

Owen Feltham

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Owen Feltham
Died: 1668
Died: January 1
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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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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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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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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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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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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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He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation.
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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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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy
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Some are so uncharitable as to think all women bad, and others are so credulous as to believe they are all good. All will grant her corporeal frame more wonderful and more beautiful than man's. And can we think God would put a worse soul into a better body?
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Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.
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When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.
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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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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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Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.
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