"Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves."
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Owen Feltham
Owen Feltham (1602 – February 23, 1668) was an English writer, author of a popular book in his day entitled Resolves, Divine, Moral, and Political (c. 1620), containing 146 short essays.
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