Thomas Fuller Quotes

#1. A man is not good or bad for one action.

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

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#3. Health is just not valued until illness comes.

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

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#5. Pride will spit in pride's face.

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

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#7. Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

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

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#9. The more wit the less courage.

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

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#11. A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.

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#12. Custom is the Guide of the Ignorant.

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#13. Despair gives courage to a coward.

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

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

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

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

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

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#19. All doors open to courtesy.

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#20. Old foxes want no tutors.

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#21. Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

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#22. 'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

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#23. One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

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#24. He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

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#25. Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

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#26. It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

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#27. Bad excuses are worse than none.

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#28. Better hazard once than always be in fear.

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#29. All things are difficult before they are easy.

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

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#31. The noblest revenge is to forgive

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#32. Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

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

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

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

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#36. A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library.

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#37. Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

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#38. Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

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#39. It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

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

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#41. We have all forgot more than we remember.

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#42. Health is not valued till sickness comes.

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#43. Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves.

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#44. Good clothes open all doors.

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#45. 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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#46. A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.

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

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#48. He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

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

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

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#51. Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

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#52. If an ass goes travelling, he'll not come home a horse.

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#53. Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

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#54. Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.

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

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#56. It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.

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#57. Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

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#58. Scalded cats fear even cold water.

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#59. Poor men's reasons are not heard.

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

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

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#62. Better be alone than in bad company.

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#63. A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

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#64. 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.

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#65. A forced kindness deserves no thanks

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

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#67. Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

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#68. A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

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#69. He that travels much knows much.

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#70. The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

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#71. Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

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#72. You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter.

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

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#74. The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

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#75. Abused patience turns to fury.

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#76. The Way to think we have enough, is not to desire to have too much.

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#77. The worse the passage the more welcome the port.

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

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

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#80. He that hopes no good fears no ill.

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#81. Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship

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

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

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#84. Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come
as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.

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

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

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#87. Eaten bread is forgotten.

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

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

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#90. Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.

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#91. A book that is shut is but a block.

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#92. Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

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

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

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#95. Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

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

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#97. Better a tooth out than always aching.

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#98. Danger past, God is forgotten.

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#99. With foxes we must play the fox.

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

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