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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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Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.
John Selden
Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
John Selden
The world cannot be governed without juggling.
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
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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 Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.
John Selden
Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.
John Selden
Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
John Selden
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.
John Selden
Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
John Selden
Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
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
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
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.
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
Ignorance of the law excuses no man not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.
John Selden
The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
John Selden
Wit and wisdom are born with a man.
John Selden
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.
John Selden
