5th Earl of Surrey

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    Alas, so all things now do hold their peace:
    Heaven and earth disturbed in no thing:
    The beasts, the air, the birds their song do cease;
    The nightes chare the stars about doth bring.
    Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?–1547)

    Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew,
    In prison pine with bondage and restraint;
    And with remembrance of the greater grief
    To banish the less, I find my chief relief.
    Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?–1547)