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The Elements of Architecture (1624)
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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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I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff.
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In Architecture as in all other Operative Arts, the end must direct the Operation.
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Architecture, can want no commendation, where there are Noble Men, or Noble minds...
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Henry Wotton
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Born:
1568
Died:
December, 1639
(aged 71)
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