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John Ray
Age: 77 †
Born: 1627
Born: November 29
Died: 1705
Died: January 17
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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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The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.
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Feather by feather the goose is plucked.
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Man does what he can, and God what he will.
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Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
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A maid that laughs is half taken.
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Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.
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A pound of worry won't pay an ounce of debt.
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