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No man is the wiser for his learning
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
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
A gallant man is above ill words.
John Selden
Wit and wisdom are born with a man.
John Selden
Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
John Selden
Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
John Selden
Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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
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
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.
John Selden
There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
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
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
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
The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
John Selden
Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
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
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice and yet everybody is content to hear.
John Selden
More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
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
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
John Selden
