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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.

Owen Feltham

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Owen Feltham
Died: 1668
Died: January 1
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Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.
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