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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.

Owen Feltham

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Owen Feltham
Died: 1668
Died: January 1
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Owen Felltham
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Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.
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Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.
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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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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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Every man should study conciseness in speaking it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.
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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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