John Selden Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• 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

• Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

  John Selden

  Pain, Pleasure, Intermission

  'Table Talk' (1689) 'Pleasure'

• 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

• Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.

  John Selden

  Pain, Trouble, Pleasure

  John Selden (1847). “The Table-talk of John Selden Esq: With a Biographical Preface and Notes”, p.149

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