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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice and yet everybody is content to hear.
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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
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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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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.
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Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.
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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.
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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.
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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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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.
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The world cannot be governed without juggling.
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Those that govern most make least noise.
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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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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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There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.
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Marriage is a desperate thing.
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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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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.
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The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.
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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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