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Marriage is a desperate thing.
John Selden
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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
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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.
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There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.
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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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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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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.
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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
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The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes.
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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice and yet everybody is content to hear.
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Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
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Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes they were the easiest for his feet.
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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.
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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.
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Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
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The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.
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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?
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