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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.
John Selden
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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice and yet everybody is content to hear.
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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 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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Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
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Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.
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Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
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Marriage is a desperate thing.
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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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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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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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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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A gallant man is above ill words.
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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
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