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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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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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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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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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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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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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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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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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By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.
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The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.
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Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.
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Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.
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He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation.
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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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Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.
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All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.
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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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The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.
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Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.
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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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The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.
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