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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.

Owen Feltham

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Owen Feltham
Died: 1668
Died: January 1
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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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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By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of 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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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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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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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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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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In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.
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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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How many would die did not hope sustain them.
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The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.
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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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Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.
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Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.
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Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.
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Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.
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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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