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Owen Feltham has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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There is no one subsists by himself alone.
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The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most…
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The greatest results in life are usually attained by common sense and perseverance.
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Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant,…
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In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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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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Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part…
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At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities,…
— Albert Camus
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A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you love a person, you love him in his stark reality, and refuse to shut your eyes to his defects and…
— John Macmurray
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A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to…
— Marcel Proust
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Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.
— Owen Feltham
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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He who does not meditate acts as one who never looks into the mirror and so does not bother to put himself…
— Pio of Pietrelcina
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A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
— John Webster
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