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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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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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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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Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.
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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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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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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