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Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.
Owen Feltham
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Owen Feltham
Died: 1668
Died: January 1
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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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Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.
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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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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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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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