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12 Quotes for 'John Selden' in the Database.
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John Selden Quotes
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More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well
as Ballads and Libels.
Topic: Ballads
Source: Libels
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All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service -- just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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In my intellect, I may divide [faith and works], just as in the candle I know there is both light and heat; yet put out the candle, and both are gone.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord 'Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle I know there is both Light and Heat. But yet, put out the Candle, and they are both gone.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253 Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this, or that; He knows best what is good for us. If your boy should ask you [for] a suit of clothes, and give you reasons, would you endure it? You know his needs better than he: let him ask a suit of clothes.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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'Tis all one as if they should make the Standard for the measure,
we call a Foot, a Chancellor's Foot; what an uncertain Measure
would this be! one Chancellor has a long Foot, another a short
Foot, a Third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same thing in the
Chancellor's Conscience.
Topic: Feet
Source: Table Talk--Equity
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Commonly we say a Judgment falls upon a
Man for something in him we cannot abide.
Topic: Judgment
Source: Table Talk--Judgments
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Syllables govern the world.
Topic: Language
Source: Table Talk--Power
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Ignorance of the law excuses no man.
Topic: Law
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Philosophy is nothing but Discretion.
Topic: Philosophy
Source: Table Talk--Philosophy
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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
Source: None
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Never tell your resolution beforehand.
Topic: Resolution
Source: Table Talk--Wisdom
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