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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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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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More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
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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.
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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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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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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 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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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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Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
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Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
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The world cannot be governed without juggling.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing is text but what is spoken of in the Bible and meant there for person and place the rest is application which a discreet man may do well but it is his scripture, not the Holy Ghost's. First, in your sermons use your logic, and then your rhetoric rhetoric without logic is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root.
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