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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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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
— Jane Austen
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the…
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a…
— Brendan Behan
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Silence is refreshment for the soul.
— Wynonna Judd
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God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the…
— Francis Bacon
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Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. Finley Peter…
— Unknown Author
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Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional…
— Mark Twain
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The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of…
— Susan Hill
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With all of the visual distraction constantly inundating us in the form of our devices and screens, I really derive a great…
— Nick Offerman
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The Christian Sunday should be a festival, gathering up all the life of the week and offering it to God in worship…
— Unknown Author
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Like a spring of pure water, God's peace in our hearts brings cleansing and refreshment to our minds and bodies
— Billy Graham
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