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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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The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.
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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. 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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Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.
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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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