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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
Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
John Selden
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice and yet everybody is content to hear.
John Selden
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.
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
Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
John Selden
While you are upon earth, enjoy the good things that are here (to that end were they given), and be not melancholy, and wish yourself in heaven.
John Selden
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.
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
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
The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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
He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge.
John Selden
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?
John Selden
In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
John Selden
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.
John Selden
Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.
John Selden
Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
John Selden
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes they were the easiest for his feet.
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
Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
John Selden
