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Inspirational Quotes by John Selden
- Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.
- Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
- Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
- It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.
- There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
- Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
- No man is the wiser for his learning
- The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.
- We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
- Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
- Those that govern most make least noise.
- Gentelmen heve ever been more temperate in their religion than common people, as having more reason.
- Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.
- Never king dropped out of the clouds.
- The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?
- Old friends are best.
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