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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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Owen Feltham
Died: 1668
Died: January 1
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When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.
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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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How many would die did not hope sustain them.
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It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.
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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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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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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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By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.
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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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The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.
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God has made no one absolute.
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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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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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Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment
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Every man should study conciseness in speaking it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.
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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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