Quote

The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.

Owen Feltham

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Owen Feltham
Died: 1668
Died: January 1
Writer
Owen Felltham
Boundaries
Pass
Quits
Angel
Boundary
Men
Guardian
Moderation
Pale
Charge
Quitting

More quotes by Owen Feltham

Image
Virtue is the truest liberty.
Owen Feltham
Image
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.
Owen Feltham
Image
Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.
Owen Feltham
Image
How many would die did not hope sustain them.
Owen Feltham
Image
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.
Owen Feltham
Image
It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.
Owen Feltham
Image
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.
Owen Feltham
Image
Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.
Owen Feltham
Image
It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.
Owen Feltham
Image
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.
Owen Feltham
Image
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.
Owen Feltham
Image
There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
Owen Feltham
Image
Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy
Owen Feltham
Image
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?
Owen Feltham
Image
Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not well which is the most useful joy I may choose for pleasure, but adversities are the best for profit and sometimes those do so far help me, as I should, without them, want much of the joy I have.
Owen Feltham
Image
Every man should study conciseness in speaking it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.
Owen Feltham
Image
The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.
Owen Feltham
Image
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
Image
Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.
Owen Feltham
Image
For converse among men, beautiful persons have less need of the mind's commending qualities. Beauty in itself is such a silent orator, that it is ever pleading for respect and liking, and by the eyes of others is ever sending, to their hearts for love.
Owen Feltham