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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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A gallant man is above ill words.
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There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
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While you are upon earth, enjoy the good things that are here (to that end were they given), and be not melancholy, and wish yourself in heaven.
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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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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice and yet everybody is content to hear.
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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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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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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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