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Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes they were the easiest for his feet.
John Selden
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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
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We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
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There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
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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 law against witches does not prove there be any but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.
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Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.
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Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking 'tis not the eating, and 'tis not the drinking that must be blamed, but the excess. So in pride.
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Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
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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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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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Those that govern most make least noise.
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Ignorance of the law excuses no man not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.
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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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Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
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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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More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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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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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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