Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all. — 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 makes a man understood and valued in all countries, and by all nations; it is the philosopher's stone, that turns all metals, and even stones, into gold, and suffers not want to break into its dwelling; it is… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share
If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us. — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon 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 court; is… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
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 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 patience of… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon 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 the full… — 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 question that… — 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 to pass;… — 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 then commends… — 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, seems to… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon 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 of nature… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
