Quote

Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy

Owen Feltham

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Owen Feltham
Died: 1668
Died: January 1
Writer
Owen Felltham
Alms
Courtesy
Plenty
Charity
Duty

More quotes by Owen Feltham

Image
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.
Owen Feltham
Image
He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.
Owen Feltham
Image
Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.
Owen Feltham
Image
In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.
Owen Feltham
Image
To be gentle is the test of a lady.
Owen Feltham
Image
Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.
Owen Feltham
Image
It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.
Owen Feltham
Image
Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment
Owen Feltham
Image
Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.
Owen Feltham
Image
He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word and in vain hath read the scriptures, the world, and man.
Owen Feltham
Image
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.
Owen Feltham
Image
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.
Owen Feltham
Image
Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.
Owen Feltham
Image
When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.
Owen Feltham
Image
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.
Owen Feltham
Image
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.
Owen Feltham
Image
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them. It gets the name of wilfulness when it will not admit of a lawful change to the better. Therefore constancy without knowledge cannot be always good. In things ill it is not virtue, but an absolute vice.
Owen Feltham
Image
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.
Owen Feltham
Image
How many would die did not hope sustain them.
Owen Feltham
Image
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
Owen Feltham