"Promises may get friends, but it is performance……" — Owen Feltham
"Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them."
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21 Quotes by Owen Feltham
Owen Feltham has 21 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.
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More Friends Quotes
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one of 13,586 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
— Pietro Aretino
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
— Aristophanes
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the…
— Aristophanes
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
— Aristotle
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
— Aristotle
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He who hath many friends hath none.
— Aristotle
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief;…
— Aristotle
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
— Aristotle
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
— Aristotle
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
— Aristotle
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I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
— J. J. Abrams
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