Answers Quote by Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a…

— Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

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

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

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

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

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

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

No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt.

— Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

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

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

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

Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy…

— Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon