John Selden Quotes
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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
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Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend…
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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.
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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…
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Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the…
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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.
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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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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,…
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I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now remains to comfort…
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He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please…
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To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him…
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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two…
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While you are upon the earth, enjoy the good things that are here.
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Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.
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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…
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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.
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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…
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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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