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John Evelyn, FRS was an English writer, gardener and diarist.

Evelyn's diaries, or memoirs, are largely contemporaneous with those of his rival diarist, Samuel Pepys, and cast considerable light on the art, culture and politics of the time . Over the years, Evelyn's Diary has been overshadowed by Pepys's chronicles of 17th-century life.

✵ 31. October 1620 – 27. February 1706
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Famous John Evelyn Quotes

“The title that has consecrated this Alter is the Marriage of Souls, and the Golden thread that tyes the hearts of all the world; I tell you, Madam, Freindshipp is beyond all relations of flesh and blood, because it is less materiall.”

John Evelyn

The Life of Mrs. Godolphin (London: William Pickering, 1847) pp. 20-21
Often misquoted as "Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world."

“I saw Hamlet Pr: of Denmark played: but now the old playe began to disgust this refined age.”

John Evelyn

November 26, 1661.
The Diary

“This Knight was indeede a valiant Gent: but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himselfe.”

John Evelyn

September 6, 1651.
The Diary

“He was universally belov'd, Hospitable, Generous, Learned in many things, skill'd in Musick, a very greate Cherisher of Learned men of whom he had the conversation.”

John Evelyn

May 26, 1703.
The Diary

“A most excellent person he is, and must be allowed a little for a little conceitedness; but he may well be so, being a man so much above others.”

John Evelyn

Samuel Pepys Diary, November 5, 1665.
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