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Those that govern most make least noise.

John Selden

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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
Jurist
Politician
Writer
Noise
Least
Make
Govern

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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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Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
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Marriage is a desperate thing.
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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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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.
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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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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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Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
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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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Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes they were the easiest for his feet.
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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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A gallant man is above ill words.
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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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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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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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We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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