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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
Belittling
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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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When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.
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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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Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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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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Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment
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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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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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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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The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.
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