Italo Calvino
Italian journalist and writer (1923-1985)
About the Owen Feltham
Owen Felthamwas 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. Feltham was for a time in the household of the Earl of Thomond as chaplain or secretary, and published Brief Character of the Low Countries (1652). His most cited essay is “How the Distempers of These Times Should Affect Wise Men”, which John Gross included in The Oxford Book of Essays.
6 Quotes by Owen Feltham
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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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 one subsists by himself alone.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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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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Meditation is the soul’s perspective glass.
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