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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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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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How many would die did not hope sustain them.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs.
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When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.
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Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.
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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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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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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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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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Virtue is the truest liberty.
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Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy
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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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The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.
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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.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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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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In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.
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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.
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