John Ray Quotes

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• Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

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  Smile, Beauty, Flirty

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• A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

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  Happiness, Joy, Inner Peace

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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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  Men, Honor, Occupation

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• He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Foe

  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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• Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

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  Education, Wise, Learning

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• Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

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  Wise, Adversity, Men

  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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• In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

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  Men, Sea, Pilots

  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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• The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.

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  Creation

  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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• Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.

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• Good words cool more than cold water.

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  Water, Cold, Good Words

  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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• To those we love best we say the least

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  Love Is, Those We Love

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• What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

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  Wisdom, Gander, Geese

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• Where love fails we espy all faults.

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  Faults, Failing

  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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• A pound of worry won't pay an ounce of debt.

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  Worry, Debt, Pay

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• Man does what he can, and God what he will.

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  Men, Doe

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• The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.

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  Death, Heart, Lasts

  John Ray (1827). “The Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of the Creation, etc”, p.225

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• He who pays the piper can call the tunes.

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  Power, Tunes, Pay

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• Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.

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  Military, Hammers, Praying

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• There is no doubt, that man is not built to be a carnivorous animal. What a sweet, pleasing and innocent sight is the spectacle of a table served that way and what a difference to a make up of fuming animal meat, slaughtered and dead! Man in no way has the constitution of a carnivorous being. Hunt and voracity are unnatural to him. Man has neither the sharp pointed teeth or claws to slaughter his prey. On the contrary his hands are made to pick fruits, berries and vegetables and teeth appropriate to chew them.

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  Sweet, Men, Animal

  "Humanimal". Book by Vergil Z. Ozeca, p. 171, 2010.

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• The wind in a man's face makes him wise.

  John Ray

  Wise, Men, Wind

  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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• Wedlock is a padlock.

  John Ray

  Marriage, Padlocks, Wedlock

  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 tree falls not at the first stroke.

  John Ray

  Fall, Tree, Firsts

  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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• Better the last smile than the first laughter.

  John Ray

  Laughter, Lasts, Firsts

  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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• ndustry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.

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  Hands, Environmental, Fortune

  "A Complete Collection of English Proverbs".

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• An ass is beautiful to an ass, and a pig is beautiful to a pig.

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  Beautiful, Pigs, Ass

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