John Aubrey Quotes

#1. I have heard him [William Harvey] say, that after his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out, that he fell mightily in his Practize, and that 'twas beleeved by the vulgar that he was crack-brained.

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#2. If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.

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#3. The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.

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#4. As he lay expiring in the agony of death, the standers-by could hear him say softly 'I have seen the glories of the world.

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#5. The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.

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#6. I have been in danger of being drowned twice.

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#7. There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.

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#8. Writing is, among things, the place where we can help ourselves cope with the dark parts of our living

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#9. How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!

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#10. 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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#11. He [William Harvey] bid me to goe to the Fountain-head, and read Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the Neoteriques shitt-breeches.

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#12. This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. On his returne the Queen welcomed him home, and sayd, My Lord, I had forgott the Fart.

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#13. He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue.

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