Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon Quotes

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He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief.
Of Hampden

Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
He…would, with a shrill and sad accent, ingeminate the word Peace, Peace.
Of falkland

Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
So enamoured on peace that he would have been glad the King should have bought it at any price.
Of falkland

Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
Without question, when he first drew the sword, he threw away the scabbard.
Of Hampden

Edward Hyde, 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, 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 natures are like fair weather, welcome to all.

Edward Hyde, 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 the best mother.

Edward Hyde, 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 us, and extols us beyond reason to those upon whom we depend, till they grow jealous, and so blow us up when they cannot throw us down.

Edward Hyde, 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; and, without doubt, of all passions which actually disturb the mind of man, it is most in our power to extinguish, at least, to suppress and correct, our anger.

Edward Hyde, 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 be so horrible to humanity that there needs no divinity to control it.

Edward Hyde, 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, Earl of Clarendon
It was a very proper answer to him who asked why any map should be delighted with beauty, that it was a question that none but a blind man could ask; since any beautiful object doth so much attract the sight of all men, that it is in no man's power not to be pleased with it.

Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon