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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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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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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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Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.
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In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.
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When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.
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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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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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To be gentle is the test of a lady.
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It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.
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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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Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.
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Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.
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Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.
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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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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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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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Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy
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