Henry Wotton Quotes

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• How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill.
• Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.
• An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
• You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies, What…
• Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.
• Well building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.
• In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions:…
• You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your…
• I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff, at my best value.
• Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.
• An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies…
• The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.
• Love lodged in a woman's breast is but a guest.
• An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.
• Broadway is a place where people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't need to impress people they don't like.

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