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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
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
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.
John Selden
Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
John Selden
Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
John Selden
Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
John Selden
The world cannot be governed without juggling.
John Selden
Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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
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
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
Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.
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 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
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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 clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes.
John Selden
Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
John Selden
Those that govern most make least noise.
John Selden
Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
John Selden
In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can.
John Selden
