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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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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.
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A gallant man is above ill words.
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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.
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Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
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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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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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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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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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Those that govern most make least noise.
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More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
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There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
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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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We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
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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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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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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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