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We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.

John Selden

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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
Jurist
Politician
Writer
Excellency
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Excellence
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Men

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Those that govern most make least noise.
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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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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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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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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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There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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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?
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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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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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A gallant man is above ill words.
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