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Reason and right give the quickest despatch. — Owen Feltham

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. — Owen Feltham

Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream. — Owen Feltham

There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man. — Owen Feltham

How many would die did not hope sustain them ... — Owen Feltham

Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces. — Owen Feltham

The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us. — Owen Feltham

Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her. — Owen Feltham

Take heed of a speedy professing friend; love is never lasting which flames before it burns. — Owen Feltham

Men are like wine,
not good before the lees of clownishness be settled. — Owen Feltham

Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy — Owen Feltham

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. — Owen Feltham

Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame. — Owen Feltham

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment. — Owen Feltham

A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom. — Owen Feltham

To be gentle is the test of a lady. — Owen Feltham

Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves. — Owen Feltham

I love the man that is modestly valiant; that stirs not till he most needs, and then to purpose. A continued patience I commend not. — Owen Feltham

It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself. — Owen Feltham

If ever I should affect injustice, it would be in this, that I might do courtesies and receive none. — Owen Feltham

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness. — Owen Feltham

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

God has made no one absolute. — Owen Feltham

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

The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing. — Owen Feltham

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

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them. — Owen Feltham

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass. — Owen Feltham

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy. — Owen Feltham

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

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world. — Owen Feltham

It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone. — Owen Feltham

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. — Owen Feltham

It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will. — Owen Feltham

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

Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it. — Owen Feltham

Virtue is the truest liberty. — Owen Feltham

Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression. — Owen Feltham

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys. — Owen Feltham

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man. — Owen Feltham

Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to. — Owen Feltham

There is no one subsists by himself alone. — Owen Feltham