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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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Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes they were the easiest for his feet.
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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice and yet everybody is content to hear.
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Those that govern most make least noise.
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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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A gallant man is above ill words.
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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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The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.
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Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
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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.
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Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
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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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We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
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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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Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that he knows best what is good for us.
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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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Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.
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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.
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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?
John Selden
