John Evelyn Quotes

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• Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
• Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.
• The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground, and then he…
• Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for many weighty causes,…
• This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.
• A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.
• Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.
• The Hellish and dismal cloud of...Coal...perpetually imminent over (London) ...that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist...corrupting the lungs and disordering the entire…
• Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.
• Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.
• I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.
• I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on the Thames, considering the innumerable number of boates & Vessels,…

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