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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
Politician
Writer
Wit
Wisdom
Born
Men
Thinking

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Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
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Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.
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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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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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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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There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.
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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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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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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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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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More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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No man is the wiser for his learning
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A gallant man is above ill words.
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Those that govern most make least noise.
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Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain but every man has a doublet so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.
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The world cannot be governed without juggling.
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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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