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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

Owen Feltham

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Owen Feltham
Died: 1668
Died: January 1
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Owen Felltham
Belittle
Praise
Worse
Men
Belittling

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There is no man but for his own interest hath an obligation to be honest. There may be sometimes temptations to be otherwise but, all cards cast up, he shall find it the greatest ease, the highest profit, the best pleasure, the most safety, and the noblest fame, to hold the horns of this altar, which, in all assays, can in himself protect him.
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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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