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A gallant man is above ill words.

John Selden

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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
Jurist
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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.
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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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More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.
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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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We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
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There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
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Wit and wisdom are born with a man.
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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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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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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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Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.
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They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then am I superstitious in not wearing black.
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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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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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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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