John Selden - Man Quotes

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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

John Selden
Commonly we say a judgement falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.

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You will want a book which contains not man's thoughts, but God's — not a book that may amuse you, but a book that can save you — not even a book that can instruct you, but a book on which you can venture an eternity — not only a book which can give relief to your spirit, but redemption to your soul — a book which contains salvation, and conveys it to you, one which shall at once be the Saviour's book and the sinner's.

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Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.

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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 again to save us.

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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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No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man.

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Of all actions of a man's life his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life 'tis most meddled with by other people.

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A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness' sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

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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 man can tell how to confute him.

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Religion is like the fashion; one man wears his doublet slashed, another laced, another plain; but every man has a doublet: so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.

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Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.

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A wise man should never resolve upon anything, at least, never let the world know his resolution, for if he cannot reach that he is ashamed.

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