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John Ray
Age: 77 †
Born: 1627
Born: November 29
Died: 1705
Died: January 17
Botanist
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The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.
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He that buys land buys many stones, He that buys flesh buys many bones, He that buys eggs buys many shells, But he that buys good ale buys nothing else.
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Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.
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I love thee like puddings if thou wert pie I'd eat thee.
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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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Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
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He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.
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After a Christmas comes a Lent.
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He that cannot abide a bad market, deserves not a good one
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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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Lean liberty is better than fat slavery
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Children, when they are little, they make parents fools when great, mad.
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ndustry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.
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Feather by feather the goose is plucked.
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He who pays the piper can call the tunes.
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That which is evil is soon learned.
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Spend and be free, but make no waste.
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A pound of worry won't pay an ounce of debt.
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In a thousand pound of Law there's not an ounce of love.
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What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
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