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Owen Feltham

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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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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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Gold is the fool’s curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.
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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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The noblest part of a friend is an honest boldness in the notifying of errors. He that tells me of a fault, aiming at my good, I must think him wise and faithful – wise in spying that which I see not; faithful in a plain admonishment, not tainted with flattery.
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Men are like wine, – not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.
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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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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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Meditation is the soul’s perspective glass.
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When two friends part they should lock up one another’s secrets, and interchange their keys.
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