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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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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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Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.
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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.
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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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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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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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Marriage is a desperate thing.
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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
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Wit and wisdom are born with a man.
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Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.
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