Henry Wotton Quotes

#1. Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God.

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#2. 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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#3. An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.

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#4. Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.

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#5. Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.

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#6. The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.

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#7. By weaker accents, what's your praise
When Philomel her voice doth raise?

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#8. Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to send, And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend.

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#9. How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill.

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#10. Love lodged in a woman's breast is but a guest.

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#11. Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

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#12. Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

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#13. I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff, at my best value.

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#14. 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 own - What are you when the rose is blown?

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#15. Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.

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#16. 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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