"There is for a free man no occupation……" — John Ray
"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."
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51 Quotes by John Ray
John Ray has 51 quotes on this site.
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Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.
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Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.
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The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.
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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.
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In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
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Never meet trouble half-way.
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He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in…
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Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of…
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A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as…
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The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another
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They love too much that die for love.
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He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.
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More Beauteous Quotes
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the…
— Daniel Boone
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love.
— William Shakespeare
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This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet
— William Shakespeare
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Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins…
— William Shakespeare
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Yet will that beauteous image make The dreary sea less drear And thy remembered smile will wake The hope that…
— William C. Bryant
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Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from heaven the news and prince of peace. Cease…
— Phineas Fletcher
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Light was first Through the Lord's word Named day: Beauteous, bright creation!
— Caedmon
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Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air,…
— William Wordsworth
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'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely.…
— William Shakespeare
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Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to…
— William Shakespeare
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As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing.
— Heinrich Heine
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