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Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.
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.
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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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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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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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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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There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.
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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.
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Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
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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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Those that govern most make least noise.
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Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
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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 Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.
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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.
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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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Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
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