Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury quotes

People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh. (Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury)

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

I do not dwell in the country, nor am I acquainted with the plough, but I think that whosoever doth not maintain the plough destroys the kingdom ... Excepting Sir Thomas More's Utopia...you shall never find but the ploughman is chiefly provided for.

Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.

Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

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Occupation: British Public Servant
Born: May 22, 1563
Died: May 24, 1612
Quotes count: 7

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