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How many would die did not hope sustain them.

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Owen Feltham
Died: 1668
Died: January 1
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Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it.
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Virtue is the truest liberty.
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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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God has made no one absolute.
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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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