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John Selden
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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
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More quotes by John Selden
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
John Selden
The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?
John Selden
More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
John Selden
Wit and wisdom are born with a man.
John Selden
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.
John Selden
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.
John Selden
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.
John Selden
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.
John Selden
Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
John Selden
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.
John Selden
Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
John Selden
The world cannot be governed without juggling.
John Selden
There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
John Selden
The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes.
John Selden
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.
John Selden
Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.
John Selden
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.
John Selden
The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
John Selden
Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that he knows best what is good for us.
John Selden
Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.
John Selden
