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"Never tell your resolution beforehand."
John SeldenHumility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is c — John Selden
"Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear."
John Selden
John Selden
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John Selden was an English jurist, a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish law. He was known as a polymath; John Milton hailed Selden in 1644 as "the chief of learned men reputed in this land".
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"Preachers say, Do as I say, not as I do."
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"Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world."
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"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 mans thoughts, but Gods — 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 Saviours book and the sinners."
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