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John Ray Biography

John Ray (29 November 1627 – 17 January 1705) was an English naturalist widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists. Until 1670, he wrote his name as John Wray. From then on, he used 'Ray', after "having ascertained that such had been the practice of his family before him".

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Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.

Instinct, Make, Reason, Use

It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his counselor.

Advice, Counselor, Foolish, Sheep, Wolf

A light-heel'd mother makes a heavy-heel'd daughter.

Daughter, Light, Mother

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

Education, Fool, Foolish, Learning, Wise

A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as to persuade himself, that this most beautiful and adorned world was or could be produced by the fortuitous concourse of atoms.

Atoms, Beautiful, Man, Men, Reason, Stupid

A pound of worry won't pay an ounce of debt.

Debt, Pay, Worry

Guilt is always jealous

Guilt, Jealous, Jealousy

Manners make often fortunes.

Fortune, Fortunes, Make, Manners

There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and goodness of God.

Honor, Infinite, Man, Men, Nature, Occupation

Feather by feather the goose is plucked.

Feather, Feathers, Geese, Goose, Plucked

A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

Double, Happiness, Inner Peace, Joy, Shared

An ass is beautiful to an ass, and a pig is beautiful to a pig.

Ass, Beautiful, Pig, Pigs

He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.

Doth, Ink, Part, Use, Words, Writing

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.

Apt, Come, Ink, Memories, Science

That which is evil is soon learned.

Evil

Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.

Generous, Hearted, Made, Money

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

Adversity, Man, Men, Rich, Wise

He that cannot abide a bad market, deserves not a good one

Abide, Bad, Deserve, Deserves, Good, Market

The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.

Death, Dies, Heart, Lasts, Part

Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.

Down, Love, Love Thy Neighbor, Neighbor, Pull, Thy

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