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John Evelyn has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
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Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience,…
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The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground,…
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Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for…
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This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.
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A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.
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Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.
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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…
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Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.
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Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained…
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I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.
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I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on the Thames, considering the innumerable number of…
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all…
— Lydia M. Child
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Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts…
— Theodore Parker
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As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.
— John Donne
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Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for…
— John Evelyn
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Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
— David Hare
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Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story - an idea -…
— Will Eisner
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I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen,…
— Graham Swift
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When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in…
— Michael Faraday
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Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of…
— Thomas Starr King
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Everything in the world has a hidden meaning. . . . Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics. When you see…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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AN ARTISTIC DISCOVERY OCCURS EACH TIME AS A NEW AND UNIQUE IMAGE OF THE WORLD, A HIEROGLYPHIC OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH. IT APPEARS…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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