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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
John Selden
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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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Those that govern most make least noise.
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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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