John Selden Short Quotes

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They that govern most make the least noise.

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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

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'Tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.

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

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Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

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Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the whole world.

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

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

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Every law is a contract between the king and the people and therefore to be kept.

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

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Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends.

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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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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

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The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.

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We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.

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More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.

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Take a straw and throw it up into the air — you may see by that which way the wind is.

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Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written.

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We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.

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Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in.

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Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.

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Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.

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Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.

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There never was a merry world since the fairies left off dancing, and the Parson left conjuring.

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Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.

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There is not anything in the world so much abused as this sentence, Salus populi suprema lex esto.

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Gentelmen heve ever been more temperate in their religion than common people, as having more reason.

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Gentlemen have ever been more temperate in their religion than common people, as having more reason.

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The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes.

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In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

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