"How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did……" — John Aubrey
"How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down."
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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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More Curiosities Quotes
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Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual…
— John Dewey
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It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as…
— Harry S. Truman
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It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and…
— Oscar Wilde
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The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where…
— Ramana Maharshi
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How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!
— John Aubrey
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Darwin, Marx, and Freud meet. They may have understood other things, but the human soul, and in particular the soul…
— Francis Parker Yockey
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I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen…
— Michael Koryta
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If the 'Principle of Relativity' in an extreme sense establishes itself, it seems as if even Time would become discontinuous…
— Oliver Lodge
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It required unusual inquisitiveness to pursue the development of scientific curiosities such as charged pith balls, the voltaic cell, and…
— Frederick Seitz
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O man, I beseech you do not treat God's promises as if they were curiosities for a museum; but use…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Juanita Rose Violini's Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible and the Ignored is delightfully odd, wonderfully weird, and anything but…
— Jeff Belanger
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Historically, the Old Charges fall into three groups. The first comprises the two earliest versions, the Regius MS of c.1390…
— John Hamill
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