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That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs.
Owen Feltham
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Owen Feltham
Died: 1668
Died: January 1
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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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Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.
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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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Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.
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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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Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.
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The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.
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How many would die did not hope sustain them.
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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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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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Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.
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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 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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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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