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• Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend
  And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend....
• Lord of himself, though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all.
  -- Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639) -- The Character of a Happy Life...
• An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.
  -- Sir Henry Wotton, 1568-1639...
• God blesses still the generous thought And still the fitting word He speeds, And truth, at His requiring taught, He quickens into deeds.
  -- Whittie...
• An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.
  -- Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639) -- Reliquiae Wottonianae...
• Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries. -- Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639)
• The Poet Whose Badness Saved His Life The most important poet in the seventeenth century was George Wither.
  Alexander Pope called him "wretched Wither" and Dryden said of his verse that "if they rhymed and rattled all was well"....
• Happy is he who dashes the heads of his enemy's children against rocks.
• Sir Henry Wotton was a most dear lover and a frequent practiser of the Art of Angling
  of which he would say, "'T was an employment for his idle time, which was then not idly spent, a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedne...