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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.
John Selden
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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
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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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There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.
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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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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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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
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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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Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
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We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn whereas , if we take it all together, and considered what went before and what followed after, we should find it meant no such thing.
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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
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Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
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Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.
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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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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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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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Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
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