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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
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Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes they were the easiest for his feet.
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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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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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Marriage is a desperate thing.
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Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
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Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
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Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
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We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
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The world cannot be governed without juggling.
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No man is the wiser for his learning
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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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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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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
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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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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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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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