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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.

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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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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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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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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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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The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.
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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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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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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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When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.
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Virtue is the truest liberty.
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How many would die did not hope sustain them.
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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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Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.
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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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In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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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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