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

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  Happiness, Joy, Inner Peace

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• Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

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  Smile, Beauty, Flirty

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• He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Foe

  John Ray (1818). “A compleat collection of English proverbs. To which is added, A collection of English words not generally used. Repr. verbatim from the ed. of 1768”, p.195

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• Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

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  Wise, Adversity, Men

  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.76

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• There is no doubt, that man is not built to be a carnivorous animal. What a sweet, pleasing and innocent sight is the spectacle of a table served that way and what a difference to a make up of fuming animal meat, slaughtered and dead! Man in no way has the constitution of a carnivorous being. Hunt and voracity are unnatural to him. Man has neither the sharp pointed teeth or claws to slaughter his prey. On the contrary his hands are made to pick fruits, berries and vegetables and teeth appropriate to chew them.

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  Sweet, Men, Animal

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• To those we love best we say the least

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  Love Is, Those We Love

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• The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.

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  Creation

  John Ray (1848). “The Correspondence of John Ray: Consisting of Selections from the Philosophical Letters Published by Dr. Derham, and Original Letters of John Ray, in the Collection of the British Museum”, p.486

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

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  Death, Heart, Lasts

  John Ray (1827). “The Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of the Creation, etc”, p.225

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• What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

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  Wisdom, Gander, Geese

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• 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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  Men, Honor, Occupation

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• Where love fails we espy all faults.

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  Faults, Failing

  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.15

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• Good words cool more than cold water.

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  Water, Cold, Good Words

  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.175

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• Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.

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  Money, Made, Hearted

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• Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of the evidence showing its folly.

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  Taken, Global Warming, Communism

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• Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

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  Education, Wise, Learning

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• In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

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  Men, Sea, Pilots

  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.4

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• Fish must swim thrice--once is the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.

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  Wine, Water, Swim

  John Ray (1818). “A compleat collection of English proverbs. To which is added, A collection of English words not generally used. Repr. verbatim from the ed. of 1768”, p.23

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• They love too much that die for love.

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  Cynical, Too Much, Dies

  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.15

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• Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.

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  Love, Neighbor, Love Thy Neighbor

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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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  Summer, Rain, July

  "A Complete Collection of English Proverbs".

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• Wedlock is a padlock.

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  Marriage, Padlocks, Wedlock

  John Ray (1818). “A compleat collection of English proverbs. To which is added, A collection of English words not generally used. Repr. verbatim from the ed. of 1768”, p.31

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• He who pays the piper can call the tunes.

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  Power, Tunes, Pay

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• Feather by feather the goose is plucked.

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  Geese, Feathers

  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.134

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• The tree falls not at the first stroke.

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  Fall, Tree, Firsts

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1855). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index”, p.517

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• Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

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  Disease, Pleasure, Taxes

  English Proverbs

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