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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
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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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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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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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Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.
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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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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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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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