Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Quotations/Quotes by Thomas Fuller (1608 – 16 August 1661)

A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.

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A book that is shut is but a block.

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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

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A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

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A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place--their birth, and at the post--their death; only they differ in the race of their lives.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Holy and Profane States--Of Natural Fools (maxim IV)

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A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

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A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

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A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

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A good garden may have some weeds.

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A good horse should be seldom spurred.

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A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all actions shooting at his own praise or profit.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Holy and Profane States--The Hypocrite (maxim I, bk. V, ch. VIII)

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A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

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A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

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A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

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A man is not good or bad for one action.

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A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.

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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.

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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Fancy)

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A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.

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A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

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A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be.

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Abused patience turns to fury.

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Act nothing in furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

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All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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All doors open to courtesy.

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All those must such delights expect to share, Who for their friend think fit to take a bear.

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All things are difficult before they are easy.

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An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.

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An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul ; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

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Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

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Bad excuses are worse than none.

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Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

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Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise.

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Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

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Better a tooth out than always aching.

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Better be alone than in bad company.

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Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

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Better hazard once than always be in fear.

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Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.

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Blindness Hatred is blind, as well as love.

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Care and diligence bring luck.

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Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

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Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

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Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

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Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

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Consider what two petitions Christ couples together in His prayer: when my body, which every day is hungry, can live without God's giving it daily bread, then and no sooner shall I believe that my soul, which daily sinneth, can spiritually live without God's forgiving it its trespasses.

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Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

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Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

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Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.

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Debt is the worst poverty.

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Despair gives courage to a coward.

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Do as most do, and men will speak well of you.

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

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Eaten bread is forgotten.

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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

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Enquire not what boils in another's pot.

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Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.

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Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

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Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 God's own work must be done by God's own ways. Otherwise, we can take no comfort in obtaining the end, if we cannot justify the means used thereunto.

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Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240 He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.

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Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535 Sorrow for sin and sorrow for suffering are ofttimes so twisted and interwoven in the same person -- yea, in the same sigh and groan -- that sometimes it is impossible for the party himself so to separate and divide them in his own sense and feeling, as to know which proceeds from the one and which from the other. Only the all-seeing eye of an infinite God is able to discern and distinguish them.

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First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

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Fools grow without watering.

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Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.

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Good clothes open all doors.

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Grant that I may never rack a Scripture simile beyond the true intent thereof, lest, instead of sucking milk, I squeeze blood out of it.

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Great hopes make great men.

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Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins. One may passively be cast down by God's terrors, and yet not willingly throw himself down as he ought at God's footstool.

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He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.

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He injures a fair lady that beholds her not.

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He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

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He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

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He is rich that is satisfied.

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He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Holy and Profane States (maxim VII, The Good Husband)

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He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind, That hopes for constant love of woman kind.

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He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

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He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller , Holy State--Of Self-Praising

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He that fears you present will hate you absent.

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He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself the most.

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He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

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He that hopes no good fears no ill.

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He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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He that is proud of the rustling of his silks, like a madman, laughs at the ratling of his fetters. For indeed, Clothes ought to be our remembrancers of our lost innocency.

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He that plants trees loves others beside himself.

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He that travels much knows much.

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He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Holy and Profane States--Of Jesting (maxim VII)

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He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.

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He was born within the sound of Bow-bell.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia

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He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Life of the Duke of Alva

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He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.

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Health is not valued till sickness comes.

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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

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I can sympathies with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

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If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.

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If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.

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If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

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If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.

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If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

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If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

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In fair Weather prepare for foul.

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It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia

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It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by getting a great library.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Holy and Profane States--Of Books (maxim 1) Light (God's eldest daughter!)

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It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

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It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

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It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

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It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Pisgah--Sight of Palestine (ed. 1650, p. 128)

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It is the best sorrow in a Christian soul when his sins are loathsome and offensive unto him--a happy token that there hath not been of late in him any insensible supply of heinous offenses, because his stale sins are still his new and daily sorrow.

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It is to be feared lest our long quarrels about the manner of His presence cause the matter of His absence, for our want of charity to receive Him.

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Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word.

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Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.

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Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, 'The Holy State and the Profane State,' 1642

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Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.

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Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

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Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.

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Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

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Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

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Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched. Try whether

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Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

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Lord, before I commit a sin, it seems to me so shallow that I may wade through it dry-shod from any guiltiness; but when I have committed it, it often seems so deep that I cannot escape without drowning.

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Lord, often have I thought to myself, I will sin but this one sin more, and then I will repent of it, and of all the rest of my sins together. So foolish was I, and ignorant. As if I should be more able to pay my debts when I owe more: or as if I should say, I will wound my friend once again, and then I will lovingly shake hands with him -- but what if my friend will not shake hands with me?

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Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.

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Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid.

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Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

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Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after.

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Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

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Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

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Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Memory)

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Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

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Much matter decocted into few words.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Definition of a proverb--Worthies (ch. II)

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Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

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No good workman without good tools.

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No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

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Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

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Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built many stories high.

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Old foxes want no tutors.

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One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

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One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

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Out of mind, when out of view.

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

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Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.

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Pride calls me to the window, gluttony to the table, wantonness to the bed, laziness to the chimney-corner; ambition commands me to go upstairs, and covetousness to come down. Vices, I see, are as well contrary to themselves as to virtue. Free me, Lord, from this distracted case; fetch me from being sin's servant to be Thine, whose "service is perfect freedom," for Thou art but one, and ever the same.

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Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

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Pride will spit in pride's face.

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Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

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Rebellion must be managed with many swords; treason to his prince's person may be with one knife.

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Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.

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Scalded cats fear even cold water.

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Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. It is cruel to beat a cripple with his own crutches!

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Seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Holy State--Of Self-Praising

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Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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Still he fishes that catches one.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (no. 4262)

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Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his censure.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Fancy)

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That trial is not fair where affection is judge.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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The end of fishing is not angling, but catching.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Gnomolia (no. 4497)

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The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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The grave is the general meeting place.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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The more wit the less courage.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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The noblest revenge is to forgive.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Holy and Profane States--Of Tombs (maxim VI)

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Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long, that there is no wit for so much room.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, The Holy and Profane States (bk. IV, ch. XII, Of Natural Fools, maxim I)

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There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Pisgah--Sight of Palestine (ed. 1650, p. 128)

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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This better to suffer wrong than do it.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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This not every question that deserves an answer.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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This skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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Those, who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia

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Thus God's children are immorall whiles their Father hath anything for them to do on earth.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Church History (bk. II, century VIII, 18, On Bede's Death)

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Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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Time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be broken.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Holy and Profane States (maxim VIII)

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To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Holy and Profane States (bk. IV, The Court Lady)

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Today is yesterday's pupil.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered one.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Tombs)

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Too good for great things and too great for good.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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Virtue is the only true nobility.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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When yet was ever found a mother Who'd give her booby for another?

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia

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Who dainties love shall beggars prove.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia

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Willful waste brings woeful want.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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With foxes we must play the fox.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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Yet spirit immortal, the tomb cannot bind thee, But like thine own eagle that soars to the sun Thou springest from bondage and leavest behind thee A name which before thee no mortal hath won.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller, Church History (bk. II, century VIII, 18, On Bede's Death)

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Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Quotations/Quotes:- Thomas Fuller

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