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Samuel Pepys Biography

Samuel Pepys FRS (/piːps/ PEEPS; 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an administrator of the navy of England and Member of Parliament who is most famous for the diary that he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. Pepys had no maritime experience, but he rose to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and King James II through patronage, hard work, and his talent for administration. His influence and reforms at the Admiralty were important in the early professionalisation of the Royal Navy.

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And it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plagueisdoneastoperiwigs, fornobody will daretobuy any haire for fear of the infectionthat it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague.

Cutting, Dead, Fashion, People, Plagueisdoneastoperiwigs

Poorpeoplestaying intheir houses aslong astill thevery fire touched them, and then running into boats or clambering from one pair of stair by the waterside to another. And among other things, the poor pigeons I perceive were loath to leave their houses, but hovered about the windows and balconies till they were some of them burned, their wings, and fell down.

Fell, Fire, Pigeons, Running, Things, Wings

Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Condition, Funny, Love, Marriage, See, Strange

He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.

Classroom, Pin, Pins, Pound, Pounds, Worth

But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.

King, Kings, Leadership, Rain, Thought

Unlike God the artist does not start with nothing and make something of it. He starts with himself as nothing and makes something of the nothing with the things at hand.

Artist, Doe, Hands, Make, Nothing, Start

Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.

Age, Differences, Mind, Peculiarly, Productive, Season

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Bed, Friends, Friendship, Proud, Real Friends

But it is pretty to see what money will do.

Money, Pretty, See

I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.

Giving, Gizzard, Hath, Opportunity, Provoked, Wife

Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.

Bed, Book, Chamber, Read, Reading

But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.

Englishmen, Forbear, Jeering, Laughing, Looks

My wife, who, poor wretch, is troubled with her lonely life.

Lonely, Poor, Troubled, Wife

The best of a bad bargain.

Bad, Bargain, Bargains

Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.

Looks, Night, Public, Sunday, Sundays, Takes

It having been a very cold night last night I had got some cold, and so in pain by wind, and a sure precursor of pain is sudden letting off farts, and when that stops, then my passages stop and my pain begins

Letting, Night, Pain, Stop, Wind

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

Dinner, Everybody, Good, Inspirational, Reconciles, Strange

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Business, Giving, Music, Way, Woman

I see it is impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men.

Done, King, Kings, Men, See

Fight the good fight; and always call to mind that it is not you who are mortal, but this body of ours. For your true being is not discerned by perceiving your physical appearance. But 'what a man's mind is, that is what he is' not that individual human shape that we identify through our senses.

Discerned, Fight, Fighting, Men, Mind, Perceiving

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