A light-heel'd mother makes a heavy-heel'd daughter.
John Ray
A light-heel'd mother makes a ...
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A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.
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.
John Ray
Fish must swim thrice--once is the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.
John Ray
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.
John Ray
