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No man is so insignificant as ...

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

Edward Clarendon 12 quotes

Dissimulation was his masterpi...

Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.

Edward Clarendon 12 quotes

The laboring man and the artif...

The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value.

Edward Clarendon 12 quotes

Counsel and conversation is a ...

Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself.

Edward Clarendon 12 quotes

Anger is an affected madness, ...

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 Clarendon 12 quotes

Angry and choleric men are as ...

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 Clarendon 12 quotes

Envy is a weed that grows in a...

Envy is a weed that grows in all soils and climates, and is no less luxuriant in the country than in the court; is not confined to any rank of men or extent of fortune, but rages in the breasts of all degrees.

Edward Clarendon 12 quotes

If our credit be so well built...

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 Clarendon 12 quotes

Friendship hath the skill and ...

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 Clarendon 12 quotes

If we did not take great pains...

If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.

Edward Clarendon 12 quotes

It was a very proper answer to...

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 Clarendon 12 quotes

That men should kill one anoth...

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 Clarendon 12 quotes

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