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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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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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Those that govern most make least noise.
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There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
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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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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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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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Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes they were the easiest for his feet.
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Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that he knows best what is good for us.
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The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.
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A gallant man is above ill words.
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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice and yet everybody is content to hear.
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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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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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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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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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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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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
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