"You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly……" — Henry Wotton
"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 are you when the sun shall rise? This was printed with music as early as 1624, in East's Sixth Set of Books, and is found in many manuscripts."
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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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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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A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and…
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in…
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I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in…
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It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our…
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among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.
— Renzo Piano
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Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties
— William Shakespeare
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Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind…
— Robert Greene
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Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.
— Lord Chesterfield
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In this would I live; in this would I die; upon this would I dwell in my thoughts and affections,…
— John Owen
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To meditate is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, our feelings our minds, and…
— Nhat Hanh
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This is the whole secret of non-attachment: live in the world, but don't be of the world. Love people, but…
— Rajneesh
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