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Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
John Selden
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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
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Nothing is text but what is spoken of in the Bible and meant there for person and place the rest is application which a discreet man may do well but it is his scripture, not the Holy Ghost's. First, in your sermons use your logic, and then your rhetoric rhetoric without logic is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root.
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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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Those that govern most make least noise.
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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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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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Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
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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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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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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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Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
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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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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice and yet everybody is content to hear.
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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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Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.
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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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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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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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