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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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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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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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A gallant man is above ill words.
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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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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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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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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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Those that govern most make least noise.
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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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Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
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No man is the wiser for his learning
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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
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Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
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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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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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Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere of the same religion on all points.
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There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.
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