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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.
John Selden
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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
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There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.
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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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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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Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes they were the easiest for his feet.
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Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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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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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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Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
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