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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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Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
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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.
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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.
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The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.
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Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
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There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
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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.
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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.
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A gallant man is above ill words.
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Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.
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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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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.
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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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