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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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Owen Felltham
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Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep 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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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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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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To be gentle is the test of a lady.
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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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