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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.

Owen Feltham

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Owen Feltham
Died: 1668
Died: January 1
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Owen Felltham
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How many would die did not hope sustain them.
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When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.
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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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Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.
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By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.
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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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The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.
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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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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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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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Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy
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The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.
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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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He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation.
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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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Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.
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Virtue is the truest liberty.
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