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[Quote No.17687] Need Area: Mind > Focus "He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it." - Owen Feltham (1602 - 1668) English author Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.9880] Need Area: Mind > Persist "The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two—commonsense and perseverance.
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[Quote No.20294] Need Area: Mind > Persist "The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two common sense and perseverance." - Owen Feltham (1602 - 1668) English author Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.30545] Need Area: Mind > Persist "Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves." - Owen Feltham Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.8941] Need Area: Work > Leadership "To go to law, is for two persons [ie business partners, employee, supplier, etc] to kindle a fire at their own cost, to warm others [lawyers], and singe themselves to cinders; and because they cannot agree, to what is truth and equity, they will both agree to unplume themselves, that others may be decorated with their feathers. [therefore it is best to only work with those whose integrity is beyond question and then to carefully work out all the devilish details beforehand.]
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[Quote No.8940] Need Area: Friends > Partners "To go to law, is for two persons to kindle a fire at their own cost, to warm others, and singe themselves to cinders; and because they cannot agree, to what is truth and equity, they will both agree to unplume themselves, that others [laywers] may be decorated with their feathers." - Feltham Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.6968] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "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 bear hard upon one of the company, like the crack of a string, it makes a stop in the music." - Feltham Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14074] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "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 English author
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[Quote No.15340] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "...we should find that the applauding of virtue would win us far more honor than seeking to disparage it." - Owen Feltham (1602 - 1668) English author
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[Quote No.18742] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer." - Owen Feltham (1602 - 1668) English author Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.30544] Need Area: Friends > Conversation "Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant." - Owen Feltham Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.17932] Need Area: Friends > General "To go to law is for two persons to kindle a fire, at their own cost, to warm others and singe themselves to cinders; and because they cannot agree as to what is truth and equity, they will both agree to unplume themselves that others may be decorated with their feathers." - Owen Feltham (1602 - 1668) English author Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.17307] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation "How many would die did not hope sustain them..." - Owen Feltham (1602 - 1668) English author Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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