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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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Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere of the same religion on all points.
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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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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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Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.
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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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More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
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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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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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A gallant man is above ill words.
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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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Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain but every man has a doublet so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.
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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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Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
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Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
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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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Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice and yet everybody is content to hear.
John Selden
