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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
Govern
Noise
Least
Make

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Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that he knows best what is good for us.
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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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If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would answer no. Then, says the prisoner, do as you would be done to.
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We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
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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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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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Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
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There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
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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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Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes they were the easiest for his feet.
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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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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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