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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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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.
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The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.
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Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy
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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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Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.
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Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.
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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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Fear, if it be not immoderate, puts a guard about us that does watch and defend us but credulity keeps us naked, and lays us open to all the sly assaults of ill-intending men: it was a virtue when man was in his innocence but since his fall, it abuses those that own it.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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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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Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.
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Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.
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The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.
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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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