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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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In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.
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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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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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God has made no one absolute.
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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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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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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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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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Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.
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Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.
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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.
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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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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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To be gentle is the test of a lady.
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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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Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.
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It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.
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The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.
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We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.
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