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No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

John Selden
Wisdom, Men, May
John SELDEN, Richard Milward (1786). “Table-Talk: being the Discourses of John Selden, Esq.; or his sence of various matters of weight and high consequence relating especially to Religion and State. Edited by R. Milward”, p.77

Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?

John Selden
Believe, Physicians, Disease
John Selden (1819). “Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq”, p.145

Nothing is text but what is spoken of in the Bible and meant there for person and place; the rest is application; which a discreet man may do well; but it is his scripture, not the Holy Ghost's. 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.

John Selden
Men, Roots, Tree

No man is the wiser for his learning

John Selden
Learning, Men, Wiser
John SELDEN, Richard Milward (1786). “Table-Talk: being the Discourses of John Selden, Esq.; or his sence of various matters of weight and high consequence relating especially to Religion and State. Edited by R. Milward”, p.77

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this or that; He knows best wheat 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 for a suit of clothes.

John Selden
Prayer, Boys, Clothes

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