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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.
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.
John Selden
Wit and wisdom are born with a man.
John Selden
Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.
John Selden
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.
John Selden
Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
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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.
John Selden
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.
John Selden
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
John Selden
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes they were the easiest for his feet.
John Selden
The world cannot be governed without juggling.
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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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We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
John Selden
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.
John Selden
There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.
John Selden
Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
John Selden
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.
John Selden
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.
John Selden
A gallant man is above ill words.
John Selden
Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
John Selden
