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Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.
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Collection: Business
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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
- John Ray
Collection: Power
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Good words cool more than cold water.
- John Ray
Collection: Cool
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Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.
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Diseases are the tax on pleasures.
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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
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Misery loves company.
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In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
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Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
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Never meet trouble half-way.
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A joy that's shared is a joy made double.
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Collection: Happiness
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He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.
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Collection: Wise
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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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Collection: Men
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Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
- John Ray
Collection: Education
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Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
- John Ray
Collection: Wise
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In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
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Collection: Men
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The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.
- John Ray
Collection: Creation
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What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
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Collection: Wisdom
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To those we love best we say the least
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Collection: Love Is
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Where love fails we espy all faults.
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Collection: Faults
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Man does what he can, and God what he will.
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Collection: Men
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The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.
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Collection: Death
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Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.
- John Ray
Collection: Military
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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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Collection: Sweet
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The wind in a man's face makes him wise.
- John Ray
Collection: Wise
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He who pays the piper can call the tunes.
- John Ray
Collection: Power
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The tree falls not at the first stroke.
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Collection: Fall
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A pound of worry won't pay an ounce of debt.
- John Ray
Collection: Worry
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Better the last smile than the first laughter.
- John Ray
Collection: Laughter
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Wedlock is a padlock.
- John Ray
Collection: Marriage
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Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.
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Collection: Use
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When friends meet, hearts warm.
- John Ray
Collection: Heart
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He that cannot abide a bad market, deserves not a good one
- John Ray
Collection: Deserve
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If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.
- John Ray
Collection: Horse
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Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please.
- John Ray
Collection: Children
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The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.
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Collection: Doors
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Who depends upon another man's table often dines late.
- John Ray
Collection: Philosophy
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A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.
- John Ray
Collection: Tree
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Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.
- John Ray
Collection: Money
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The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another
- John Ray
Collection: Horse
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ndustry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.
- John Ray
Collection: Hands
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It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his counselor.
- John Ray
Collection: Sheep
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The younger brother hath the more wit.
- John Ray
Collection: Brother
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Spend and be free, but make no waste.
- John Ray
Collection: Waste
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Many without punishment, none without sin.
- John Ray
Collection: Punishment
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The honester the man, the worse luck.
- John Ray
Collection: Honesty
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Feather by feather the goose is plucked.
- John Ray
Collection: Geese
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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.
- John Ray
Collection: Passion
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An ass is beautiful to an ass, and a pig is beautiful to a pig.
- John Ray
Collection: Beautiful

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