Owen Feltham Citas

• La meditación es el cristal de perspectiva del alma.

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  Greatness, Glasses, Perspective

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.32

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• Los mejores resultados en la vida se consiguen normalmente con medios sencillos y el ejercicio de cualidades ordinarias. Éstas pueden resumirse en su mayor parte en dos: sentido común y perseverancia.

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  Motivational, Perseverance, Business

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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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  Men, Gambling, Two

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• To trust God when we have securities in our iron chest is easy, but not thankworthy; but to depend on him for what we cannot see, as it is more hard for man to do, so it is more acceptable to God.

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  Men, Iron, Trust In God

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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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  Enemy, Victory, Poison

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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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  Rivers, Rowing, Virtue

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• Time is like a ship which never anchors; while I am on board, I had better do those things that may profit me at my landing, than practice such as shall cause my commitment when I come ashore.

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  Time, Commitment, Anchors

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• The greatest results in life are usually attained by common sense and perseverance.

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  Inspirational, Perseverance, Common Sense

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• Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.

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  Faith, Water, Want

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• Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.

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  Friendship, Nurse, Promise

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• Todo hombre debería estudiar la concisión al hablar; es un signo de ignorancia no saber que los discursos largos, aunque puedan agradar al orador, son la tortura del oyente.

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  Ignorance, Men, Long

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• It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

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  Religioso, Hombres, Religión

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• Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy

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  Charity, Courtesy, Alms

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• Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.

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  Men, Pleasure, Ifs

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.2

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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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  Humanity, Sailing, Ships

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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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  Fall, Men, Abuse

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• In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.

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  Patience, Motivation, Business

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• Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it.

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  Business, Grateful, Giving

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• To go to law is for two persons to kindle a fire, at their own cost, to warm others and singe themselves to cinders; and because they cannot agree as to what is truth and equity, they will both agree to unplume themselves that others may be decorated with their feathers.

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  Fire, Law, Two

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• When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.

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  Keys, Two Friends, Secret

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.114

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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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  Beautiful, Women, Believe

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• Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best.

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  Keys, Mind, Useless

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• Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions.

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  Men, Missing, May

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• How many would die did not hope sustain them.

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  Anticipation, Dies

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.179

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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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  Men, Denial, Tongue

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.22

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