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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.
John Selden
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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
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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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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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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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There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.
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Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
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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 is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
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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 world cannot be governed without juggling.
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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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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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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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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
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Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
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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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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
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