John Ray

Environmentalist

1627-11-29

Quotes by John Ray

• Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

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• Good words cool more than cold water.

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• He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth.

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• Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please.

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• Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.

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• Feather by feather the goose is plucked.

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• In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

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• Where love fails we espy all faults.

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• He who pays the piper can call the tunes.

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• Every man praises his own wares.

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• The tree falls not at the first stroke.

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• He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.

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• A wonder it must be, that there should be any man found stupid as to persuade himself that this most beautiful world could be produced by the fortuitous concourse of atoms.

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• If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

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