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Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
John Selden
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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
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The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes.
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All things are God's already we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service - just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now.
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The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.
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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
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In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can.
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Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.
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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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Marriage is a desperate thing.
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No man is the wiser for his learning it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
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Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that he knows best what is good for us.
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Nothing is text but what is spoken of in the Bible and meant there for person and place the rest is application which a discreet man may do well but it is his scripture, not the Holy Ghost's. First, in your sermons use your logic, and then your rhetoric rhetoric without logic is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root.
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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice and yet everybody is content to hear.
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A gallant man is above ill words.
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There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.
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Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.
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Preachers say, Do as I say, not as I do. But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?
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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.
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