Inspirational Quotes by Owen Feltham
“Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.”
topics: Apathy
“A talkative fellow may be compared to an unbraced drum, which beats a wise man out of his wits. Loquacity is ever running, and almost incurable.”
topics: Character
“He hath a poor spirit who is not planted above petty wrongs.”
topics: Character
“He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation.”
topics: Character
“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.”
“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.”
“Laughter should dimple the cheek, not furrow the brow. A jest should be such that all shall be able to join in the laugh which it occasions; but if it bears hard upon one of the company, like the crack of a string, it makes a stop in the music.”
“Men are like wine; not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.”
“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 her better body?”
“The true boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale, our guardian angel quits his charge of us.”
“We make ourselves more injuries than are offered to us; they many times pass for wrongs in our own thoughts, that were never meant so by the heart of him that speaketh. The apprehension of wrong hurts more than the sharpest part of the wrong done.”
“Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.”
“Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long removes, she discerneth God, as if he were nearer at hand.”
“Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness. It casts a cloud over the mind, and renders it more occupied about the evil which disquiets than about the means of removing it.”
topics: Discontentment
“Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not which is the most useful. Joy I may choose for pleasure; but adversities are the best for profit; and sometimes these do so far help me, that I should, without them, want much of the joy I have.”
“If we considered detraction to be bred of envy, and nested only in deficient minds, we should find that the applauding of virtue would win us far more honor than seeking to disparage it. That would show we loved what we commended, while this tells the world we grudge at what we want ourselves.”
topics: Envy
“In some dispositions there is such an envious kind of pride that they cannot endure that any but themselves should be set forth for excellent; so that when they hear one justly praised, they will either seek to dismount his virtues, or, if they be like a clear light, they will stab him with a "but" of detraction.”
“Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.”
“Riches, though they may reward virtue, cannot cause it. He is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one.”
topics: Finances
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Owen Feltham was an English writer, author of a book entitled Resolves, Divine, Moral, and Political (c. 1620), containing 146 short essays. It had great popularity in its day. Though sometimes stiff and affected in style, it contains many sound, if not original or brilliant, reflections, and occasional felicities of expression. Feltham was for a time in the household of the Earl of Thomond as chaplain or sec., and published (1652), Brief Character of the Low Countries.