John Ray quotes
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“Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.”
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“Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.”
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“He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.”
-- John RaySource : John Ray (1818). “A compleat collection of English proverbs. To which is added, A collection of English words not generally used. Repr. verbatim from the ed. of 1768”, p.195
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“Where love fails we espy all faults.”
-- John RaySource : John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.15
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“Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.”
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“Good words cool more than cold water.”
-- John RaySource : John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.175
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“The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.”
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“The use of butterflies is to adorn the world and delight the eyes of men, to brighten the countryside, serving like so many golden spangles to decorate the fields.”
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“Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.”
-- John RaySource : John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.76
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“The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another”
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“After a Christmas comes a Lent.”
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“Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.”
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“The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.”
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“Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.”
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“In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.”
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“A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.”
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“He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.”
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“Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of the evidence showing its folly.”
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“A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink.”
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“The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.”
-- John RaySource : John Ray (1848). “The Correspondence of John Ray: Consisting of Selections from the Philosophical Letters Published by Dr. Derham, and Original Letters of John Ray, in the Collection of the British Museum”, p.486
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“The wind in a man's face makes him wise.”
-- John RaySource : Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1860). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases”, p.66
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“What's good for the goose is good for the gander.”
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“Better the last smile than the first laughter.”
-- John RaySource : John Ray (1855). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index; in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases”, p.330
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“The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.”
-- John RaySource : John Ray (1827). “The Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of the Creation, etc”, p.225
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“Fish must swim thrice--once is the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.”
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“One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares.”
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“A talkative person runs himself upon great inconvenience by blabbing out his own and others' secrets.”
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“Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.”
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“Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon.”
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“The tree falls not at the first stroke.”
-- John RaySource : Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1855). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index”, p.517
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“A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.”
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“In a calm sea every man is a pilot.”
-- John RaySource : John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.4
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“A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as to persuade himself, that this most beautiful and adorned world was or could be produced by the fortuitous concourse of atoms.”
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“If the first of July be rainy weather, It will rain, more of less, for four weeks together.”
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“Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.”
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“There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and goodness of God.”
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“Feather by feather the goose is plucked.”
-- John RaySource : John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.134
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“Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please.”
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“He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth.”
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“Who depends on another man's table often dines late.”
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“Wedlock is a padlock.”
-- John RaySource : John Ray (1818). “A compleat collection of English proverbs. To which is added, A collection of English words not generally used. Repr. verbatim from the ed. of 1768”, p.31
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“The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.”
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“My personal credo as a libertarian conservative: I think all attempts to reform your fellow-citizens or tell them how to live their lives are arrogant and tyrannical. THAT'S why I oppose Leftism. I want people to be free to manage their own lives. Reform is just authoritarianism. People are not playthings for anybody's theories or obsessions.”
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“I love thee like puddings; if thou wert pie I'd eat thee.”
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“Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.”
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