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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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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
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Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
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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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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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Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
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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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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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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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In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can.
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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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The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.
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Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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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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