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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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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.
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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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Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
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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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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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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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Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
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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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Those that govern most make least noise.
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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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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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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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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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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.
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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.
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We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
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