"Box about: 'twill come to my father anon." — John Aubrey
"Box about: 'twill come to my father anon."
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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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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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Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him,…
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More Anon Quotes
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Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a…
— John Aubrey
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Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is…
— Heinrich Himmler
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When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling…
— Virginia Woolf
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What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments…
— William James
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So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and…
— John Milton
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Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's…
— John Milton
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However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.
— William Wordsworth
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Lat take a cat, and fostre him wel with milk, And tendre flesh, and make his couche of silk, And…
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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I think we need a 12-step group for non-stop talkers. We're going to call it On and On Anon.
— Paula Poundstone
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.... Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what…
— Henry David Thoreau
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