"Tell the truth so as to puzzle and……" — Henry Wotton
"Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries."
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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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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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An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man…
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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 Adversaries Quotes
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The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring…
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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what…
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I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
— Albert Camus
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In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.
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I think we have no apologies to make. We were in a state of global rivalry with a global adversary.
— Unknown Author
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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We…
— Brian Day
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Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive…
— Lionel Trilling
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The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling…
— Sun Tzu
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With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots,…
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The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls…
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Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international…
— J. William Fulbright
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