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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.

Owen Feltham

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Owen Feltham
Died: 1668
Died: January 1
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Owen Felltham
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The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.
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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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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a 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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Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy
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How many would die did not hope sustain them.
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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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Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.
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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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Virtue is the truest liberty.
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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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Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them. It gets the name of wilfulness when it will not admit of a lawful change to the better. Therefore constancy without knowledge cannot be always good. In things ill it is not virtue, but an absolute vice.
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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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