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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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Owen Feltham
Died: 1668
Died: January 1
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Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.
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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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Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy
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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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He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation.
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Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.
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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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In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.
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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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It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.
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Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.
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