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Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.
Owen Feltham
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Owen Feltham
Died: 1668
Died: January 1
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Owen Felltham
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The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.
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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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Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.
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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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Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.
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We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.
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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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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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Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not well which is the most useful joy I may choose for pleasure, but adversities are the best for profit and sometimes those do so far help me, as I should, without them, want much of the joy I have.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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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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