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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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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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A gallant man is above ill words.
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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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Those that govern most make least noise.
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Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
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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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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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Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.
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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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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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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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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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Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
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Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.
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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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There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
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There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.
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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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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
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