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Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.
John Selden
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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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Ignorance of the law excuses no man not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.
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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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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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Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
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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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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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