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Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
John Selden
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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
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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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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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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
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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.
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Those that govern most make least noise.
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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.
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Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.
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There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.
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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.
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In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
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Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
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The law against witches does not prove there be any but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.
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The world cannot be governed without juggling.
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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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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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We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
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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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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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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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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.
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