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John Selden
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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
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Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.
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
The world cannot be governed without juggling.
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?
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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice and yet everybody is content to hear.
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
Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
John Selden
The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.
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We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
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There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
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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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There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.
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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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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
Marriage is a desperate thing.
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Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
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
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
Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
John Selden
Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.
John Selden
