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More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
John Selden
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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
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More quotes by John Selden
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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Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.
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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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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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There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.
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A gallant man is above ill words.
John Selden
Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
John Selden
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.
John Selden
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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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 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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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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Those that govern most make least noise.
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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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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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Marriage is a desperate thing.
John Selden
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.
John Selden
Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
John Selden
Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that he knows best what is good for us.
John Selden
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.
John Selden
