Owen Feltham Quotes - Page 3

• A combed writing will cost both sweat and the rubbing of the brain. And combed I wish it, not frizzled or curled.

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  Writing, Sweat, Brain

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• The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.

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  Men, Eggs

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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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  Angel, Men, Quitting

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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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  Men, Giving, Grace

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• That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs.

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  Men, World, Affair

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• Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb; of all fowls, the mild and guileless dove. Christ is the rose of the field, and the lily of the valley. When God appeared to Moses, it was not in the lofty cedar nor the sturdy oak nor the spreading palm; but in a bush, a humble, slender, abject shrub; as if He would, by these elections, check the conceited arrogance of man.

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  Wall, Humble, Humility

  "Diccionario de palabras ardientes de escritores brillantes". Libro de Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand.

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  Glasses, Hands, Long

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

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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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  Men, Waiting, May

  "Diccionario de palabras ardientes de escritores brillantes". Libro de Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• When I but hear her sing, I fare Like one that raised, holds his ear To some bright star in the supremest Round; Through which, besides the light that's seen There may be heard, from Heaven within, The rests of Anthems, that the Angels sound.

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  Stars, Angel, Light

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• Shall I speak truly what I now see below? The World is all a carkass, smoak and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just Nothing.

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  Vanity, Play, Shadow

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• Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.

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  Misery, Kind, Virtue

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• There is no one subsists by himself alone.

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  Environmental Stewardship, Dependence

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• God has made no one absolute. The rich depend on the poor, as well as the poor on the rich. The world is but a magnificent building; all the stones are gradually cemented together. No one subsists by himself.

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  Together, World, Stones

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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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  Belleza, Hermoso, Ojo

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.89

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• He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation.

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  Balance, Would Be, Needs

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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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  Heaven, Desire, Selfishness

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• Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one.

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  Noble, Benefits, May

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• He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend.

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  Littles, Too Much, Economy

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.249

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• No man can expect to find a friend without faults; nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Without reciprocal mildness and temperance there can be no continuance of friendship. Every man will have something to do for his friend, and something to bear with in him. The sober man only can do the first; and for the latter, patience is requisite. It is better for a man to depend on himself, than to be annoyed with either a madman or a fool.

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  Friends, Men, Annoyed

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• La negligencia es el óxido del alma que corroe todas sus mejores resoluciones.

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  Soul, Rust, Neglect

  "Diccionario de palabras ardientes de escritores brillantes". Libro de Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame.

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  Honesty, Safety, Fame

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.4

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• Ningún hombre tiene la obligación de ser honesto más que por su propio interés. Puede haber a veces tentaciones de ser de otra manera; pero, echadas todas las cartas, encontrará la mayor facilidad, el mayor beneficio, el mejor placer, la mayor seguridad y la más noble fama, sostener los cuernos de este altar, que, en todos los ensayos, puede en sí mismo protegerle.

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  Honesty, Men, Safety

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• Men are like wine,--not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.

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  Wine, Men, Manners

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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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  Men, Heaven, He Man

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• Virtue is the truest liberty.

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  Liberty, Virtue, Truest

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.12

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