Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him. — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Ashamed Copy Share Image
The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt. — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
If our credit be so well built, so firm, that it is not easy to be shaken by calumny or insinuation, envy… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do, which is the case of all volunteers in war,… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Best mother Copy Share Image
Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Anger Copy Share Image
Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Advice Copy Share Image
Envy is a weed that grows in all soils and climates, and is no less luxuriant in the country than in the… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
It was a very proper answer to him who asked why any map should be delighted with beauty, that it was a… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
Anger is an affected madness, compounded of pride and folly, and an intention to do commonly more mischief than it can bring… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Art Copy Share Image
