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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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The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?
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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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Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
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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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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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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
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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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Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes they were the easiest for his feet.
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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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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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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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