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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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Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes they were the easiest for his feet.
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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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More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
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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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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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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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Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
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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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Preachers say, Do as I say, not as I do. But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?
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Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
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Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
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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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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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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice and yet everybody is content to hear.
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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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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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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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