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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.
John Selden
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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
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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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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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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice and yet everybody is content to hear.
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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.
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We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
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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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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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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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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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A gallant man is above ill words.
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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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Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes they were the easiest for his feet.
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Preachers say, Do as I say, not as I do. But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?
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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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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
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