"First, in your sermons, use your logic, and……" — 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; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are caught with fine expressions when they understand not reason."
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John Selden
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66 Quotes by John Selden
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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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