John Ray Quotes
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Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon.
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What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
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He that cannot abide a bad market, deserves not a good one
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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 Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.
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I love thee like puddings; if thou wert pie I'd eat thee.
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Who depends upon another man's table often dines late.
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Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.
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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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In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
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He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.
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Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.
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Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.
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A maid that laughs is half taken.
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If the first of July it be rainy weather, 'Twill rain more or less for four weeks together.
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The younger brother hath the more wit.
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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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Never meet trouble half-way.
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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
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ndustry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.
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The honester the man, the worse luck.
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An ass is beautiful to an ass, and a pig is beautiful to a pig.
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Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
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The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.
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A pound of worry won't pay an ounce of debt.
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To those we love best we say the least
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The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.
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Where love fails we espy all faults.
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They that make laws must not break them.
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Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.
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