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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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Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
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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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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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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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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then am I superstitious in not wearing black.
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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice and yet everybody is content to hear.
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He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge.
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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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The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.
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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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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.
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Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.
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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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No man is the wiser for his learning
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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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We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
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