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Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

John Selden

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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
Jurist
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Writer
Wit
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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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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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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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A gallant man is above ill words.
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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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We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.
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There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
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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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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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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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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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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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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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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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