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Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

John Selden

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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
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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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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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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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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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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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There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.
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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.
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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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Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
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Those that govern most make least noise.
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Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
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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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Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.
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Wit and wisdom are born with a man.
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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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