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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.
John Selden
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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
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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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Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.
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The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.
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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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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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Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
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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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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 is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
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Those that govern most make least noise.
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In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
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Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
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A gallant man is above ill words.
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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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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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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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Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.
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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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