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Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.

Owen Feltham

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Owen Feltham
Died: 1668
Died: January 1
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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.
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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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It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.
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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 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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How many would die did not hope sustain 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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Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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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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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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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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To be gentle is the test of a lady.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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