"An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent……" — Henry Wotton
"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 at home for himself."
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Henry Wotton
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15 Quotes by Henry Wotton
Henry Wotton has 15 quotes on this site.
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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,…
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Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.
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An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
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You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common…
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Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.
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Well building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.
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In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well.…
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You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if…
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I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff, at my best value.
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Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.
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The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.
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Love lodged in a woman's breast is but a guest.
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More Abroad Quotes
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one of 501 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long…
— Saint Augustine
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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
— Saint Augustine
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Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
— Alec Baldwin
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
— John Quincy Adams
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It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are…
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for…
— Bill Bryson
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
— Samuel Butler
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The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a…
— Tucker Carlson
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly…
— William Ellery Channing
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own…
— Winston Churchill
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to…
— Kofi Annan
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We should strengthen our immigration laws to prevent the importation of foreign wages and working conditions. We should make it…
— Edward Kennedy
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