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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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Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking 'tis not the eating, and 'tis not the drinking that must be blamed, but the excess. So in pride.
John Selden
The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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
We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
John Selden
Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
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?
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
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
More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
John Selden
Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.
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
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
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
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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
Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
John Selden
Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
John Selden
There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
John Selden
No man is the wiser for his learning
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
