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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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Owen Felltham
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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 were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.
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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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God has made no one absolute.
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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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The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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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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Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.
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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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Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not well which is the most useful joy I may choose for pleasure, but adversities are the best for profit and sometimes those do so far help me, as I should, without them, want much of the joy I have.
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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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