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Reason Quotes by John Selden
- 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;…
- The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes.
- Gentelmen heve ever been more temperate in their religion than common people, as having more reason.
- 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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