Henry Wotton

Author

1568-03-30

Quotes by Henry Wotton

• The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.

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• An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.

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

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

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