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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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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 House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?
John Selden
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes they were the easiest for his feet.
John Selden
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.
John Selden
Wit and wisdom are born with a man.
John Selden
Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
John Selden
We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
John Selden
There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
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
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
Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.
John Selden
Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
John Selden
A gallant man is above ill words.
John Selden
The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.
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
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
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
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
Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.
John Selden
There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.
John Selden
