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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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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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There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.
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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice and yet everybody is content to hear.
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Wit and wisdom are born with a man.
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There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
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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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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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Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
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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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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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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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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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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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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
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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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Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
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