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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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Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
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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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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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A gallant man is above ill words.
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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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Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
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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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Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
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The world cannot be governed without juggling.
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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 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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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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The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.
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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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Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.
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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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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice and yet everybody is content to hear.
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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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Marriage is a desperate thing.
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