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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.
John Selden
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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
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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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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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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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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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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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Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
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No man is the wiser for his learning
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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice and yet everybody is content to hear.
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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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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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There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.
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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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Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.
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Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
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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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All things are God's already we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service - just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now.
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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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Those that govern most make least noise.
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