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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.
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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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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Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.
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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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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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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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a 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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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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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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God has made no one absolute.
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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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Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.
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How many would die did not hope sustain them.
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A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.
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