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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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God has made no one absolute.
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How many would die did not hope sustain them.
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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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Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.
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Virtue is the truest liberty.
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To be gentle is the test of a lady.
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Every man should study conciseness in speaking it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.
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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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In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.
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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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Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy
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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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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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Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.
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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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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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Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.
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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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