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Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.
Henry Wotton

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Love lodged in a woman's breast is but a guest.
Henry Wotton

3.
Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.
Henry Wotton

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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.
Henry Wotton

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An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
Henry Wotton

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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.
Henry Wotton

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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: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.
Henry Wotton

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Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.
Henry Wotton

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Well building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.
Henry Wotton

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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?
Henry Wotton

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By weaker accents, what's your praise When Philomel her voice doth raise?
Henry Wotton

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Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
Henry Wotton

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

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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.
Henry Wotton

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

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The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.
Henry Wotton

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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.
Henry Wotton