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The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.
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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Virtue is the truest liberty.
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That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs.
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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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Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.
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Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate 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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It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.
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Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.
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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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Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.
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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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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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Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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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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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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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.
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