John Selden Citas

• Los viejos amigos son los mejores.

  John Selden

  Inspirational, Old Friends

  'Table Talk' (1689) 'Friends'

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• Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.

  John Selden

  New Year, Resolution, Happy New Year

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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 refute him.

  John Selden

  Ignorancia, Hombres, Ley

  Table-Talk "Law" (1689) See Proverbs 153

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• There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.

  John Selden

  Book, Dying, Moments

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

  John Selden

  Humility, Practice, Virtue

  "Table Talk: Being the Discourses of John Selden (Humility)". Book by John Selden and Richard Milward, 1689.

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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.

  John Selden

  Pain, Giving, Apricots

  John Selden (1819). “Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq”, p.44

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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.

  John Selden

  Wise, Men, World

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• Ignorance of the law excuses no man.

  John Selden

  Ignorancia, Hombres, Ley

  Table-Talk "Law" (1689) See Proverbs 153

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• El que no tiene religión para gobernar su moralidad, no es ni un drama mejor que mi perro mastín; mientras le acaricies, y le complazcas, y no le pellizques, jugará contigo tan finamente como pueda ser, es un mastín de muy buena moral; pero si le haces daño, volará a tu cara, y te arrancará la garganta.

  John Selden

  Dog, Hurt, Play

  John Selden (1800). “The Table-talk: Of John Selden, Esq. Being His Sense of Various Matters of Weight and High Consequence; Relating Especially to Religion and State”, p.75

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• Predicar largo, fuerte, y condenación, es la manera de ser llorado. Amamos a un hombre que nos condena, y corremos de nuevo tras él para que nos salve.

  John Selden

  Love, Running, Men

  John Selden (1819). “Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq”, p.48

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• Talk what you will of the Jews,--that they are cursed: they thrive wherever they come; they are able to oblige the prince of their country by lending him money; none of them beg; they keep together; and as for their being hated, why, Christians hate one another as much.

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  Cristiano, País, Odio

  John Selden (1786). “Table Talk: Being the Discourses”, p.65

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• La felicidad de la vida conyugal depende de hacer pequeños sacrificios con disposición y alegría.

  John Selden

  Happiness, Happy, Marriage

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• Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.

  John Selden

  Spirit, Abundance, Possession

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• Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.

  John Selden

  Pensar, Dar, Mundo

  John Selden (1716). “Table-talk: the discourses of J. Selden [ed. by R. Milward.].”, p.79

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• Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

  John Selden

  Pain, Pleasure, Intermission

  'Table Talk' (1689) 'Pleasure'

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• There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.

  John Selden

  Dance, Dancing, World

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

  John Selden

  Made, Parish

  John Selden, Richard Milward (1821). “Seldeniana: with a biographical preface”, p.100

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• La oración debe ser breve, sin dar a Dios Todopoderoso razones por las que deba concedernos esto o aquello; él sabe mejor que nadie lo que nos conviene.

  John Selden

  Prayer, Giving, Reason Why

  John Selden (1819). “Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq”, p.140

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• 'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.

  John Selden

  Drinking, Alcohol, Excess

  "English Belles-lettres: From A. D. 901 to 1834".

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• Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake; but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere of the same religion on all points.

  John Selden

  Men, Religion, Three

  Boethius, Roger Ascham, George Gascoigne, Sir Philip Sidney, John Selden (1901). “English Belles-lettres: From A. D. 901 to 1834”

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• I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now remains to comfort me at the close of this life but this passage of St. Paul: "It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners." To this I cleave, and herein do I find rest.

  John Selden

  Jesus, Pain, Taken

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• 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.

  John Selden

  Taken, Expression, Roots

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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.

  John Selden

  Husband, Believe, Eye

  John Selden (1847). “The Table-talk of John Selden Esq: With a Biographical Preface and Notes”, p.42

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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.

  John Selden

  Reading, Men, Comfort

  John Selden, Richard Milward (1821). “Seldeniana: with a biographical preface”, p.98

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• Echar fuera demonios es mero malabarismo; nunca echan fuera más que lo que primero echan dentro.

  John Selden

  Devil, Casting, Firsts

  John Selden, Samuel Weller Singer, Edward FitzGerald (1860). “Table Talk: With a Biographical Pref. and Notes”, p.144

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