"Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said,……" — John Aubrey
"Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first coming of King Charles II into St. James's Park, he kissed the King's hand, and rubbed his nose with it; which disturbed the King, but cured him."
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John Aubrey
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15 Quotes by John Aubrey
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Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a…
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He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue.
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Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation…
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I have heard him [William Harvey] say, that after his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out, that he…
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About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's…
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The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.
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Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and…
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This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he…
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How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!
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Box about: 'twill come to my father anon.
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I have been in danger of being drowned twice.
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If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because…
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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe,…
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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
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Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise…
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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want…
— John Adams
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship…
— Joseph Addison
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a…
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In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
— Aeschylus
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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
— Lord Byron
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Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind…
— Giacomo Casanova
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