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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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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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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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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
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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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No man is the wiser for his learning it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
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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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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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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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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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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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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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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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More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
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The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.
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Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
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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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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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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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Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes they were the easiest for his feet.
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