Owen Feltham Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them. It gets the name of wilfulness when it will not admit of a lawful change to the better. Therefore constancy without knowledge cannot be always good. In things ill it is not virtue, but an absolute vice.

  Owen Feltham

  Change, Names, Perfection

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.123

• Fear, if it be not immoderate, puts a guard about us that does watch and defend us; but credulity keeps us naked, and lays us open to all the sly assaults of ill-intending men: it was a virtue when man was in his innocence; but since his fall, it abuses those that own it.

  Owen Feltham

  Fall, Men, Abuse

• Surely, if we considered detraction to be bred of envy, nested only in deficient minds, we should find that the applauding of virtue would win us far more honor than the seeking slyly to disparage it. That would show we loved what we commended, while this tells the world we grudge at what we want in ourselves.

  Owen Feltham

  Winning, Envy, Honor

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.114

• Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one.

  Owen Feltham

  Noble, Benefits, May

• Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.

  Owen Feltham

  Rivers, Rowing, Virtue

• Virtue is the truest liberty.

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  Liberty, Virtue, Truest

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.12

• Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.

  Owen Feltham

  Misery, Kind, Virtue

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