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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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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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The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.
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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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Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.
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In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.
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Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.
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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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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it.
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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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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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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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Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.
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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 who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation.
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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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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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By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.
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