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To those we love best we say the least
John Ray
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John Ray
Age: 77 †
Born: 1627
Born: November 29
Died: 1705
Died: January 17
Botanist
Bryologist
Naturalist
Ornithologist
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Zoologist
Black Notley
Essex
John Wray
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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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Man does what he can, and God what he will.
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In a thousand pound of Law there's not an ounce of love.
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Little children, little sorrows big children, big sorrows.
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A pound of worry won't pay an ounce of debt.
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Children, when they are little, they make parents fools when great, mad.
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The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.
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The honester the man, the worse luck.
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Better the last smile than the first laughter.
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The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.
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The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.
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Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.
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A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.
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The use of butterflies is to adorn the world and delight the eyes of men, to brighten the countryside, serving like so many golden spangles to decorate the fields.
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He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.
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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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ndustry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.
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