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There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.
John Selden
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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
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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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In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
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Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
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The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.
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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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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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Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn whereas , if we take it all together, and considered what went before and what followed after, we should find it meant no such thing.
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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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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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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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Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this or that He knows best wheat is good for us. If your boy should ask you for a suit of clothes and give you reasons, would you endure it? You know his needs better than he let him ask for a suit of clothes.
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We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
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If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would answer no. Then, says the prisoner, do as you would be done to.
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Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
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Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
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More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
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