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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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They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then am I superstitious in not wearing black.
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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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Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.
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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice and yet everybody is content to hear.
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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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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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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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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
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Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
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Marriage is a desperate thing.
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There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
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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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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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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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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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Those that govern most make least noise.
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Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.
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