Henry Wotton Quotes

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He first deceased; she for a little tried
To live without him, liked it not, and died.

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Love lodged in a woman's breast
Is but a guest.

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Architecture, can want no commendation, where there are Noble Men, or Noble minds...

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In Architecture as in all other Operative Arts, the end must direct the Operation.

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How happy is he born and taught,
That serveth not another's will;
Whose armor is his honest thought,
And simple truth his utmost skill!

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This man is freed from servile bands,
Of hope to rise, or fear to fall:—
Lord of himself, though not of lands,
And having nothing, yet hath all.

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

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The itch of disputing will prove the scab of churches.

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Well building hath three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

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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.

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Virtue is the roughest way,
But proves at night a bed of down.

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An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of 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 people of the skies,
What are you when the moon shall rise?

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I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff.

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

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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?

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Here lies the author of this phrase: "The itch for disputing is the sore of churches." Seek his name elsewhere.

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Dazzled thus with height of place,
Whilst our hopes our wits beguile,
No man marks the narrow space
'Twixt a prison and a smile.

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