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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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A gallant man is above ill words.
John Selden
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes they were the easiest for his feet.
John Selden
The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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
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
There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
John Selden
More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
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
We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
John Selden
Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
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
Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.
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Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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
Those that govern most make least noise.
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?
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Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.
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
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.
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