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Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.

John Selden

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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
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Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.
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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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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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