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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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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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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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Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.
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Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.
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When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.
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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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Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep 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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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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To be gentle is the test of a lady.
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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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The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.
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Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy
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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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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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Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment
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How many would die did not hope sustain them.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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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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