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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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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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Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere of the same religion on all points.
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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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Those that govern most make least noise.
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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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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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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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The world cannot be governed without juggling.
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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.
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Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
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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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Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
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More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
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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 practice and yet everybody is content to hear.
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There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
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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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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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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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