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. At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.

Thomas Hughes

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

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#6. Care and diligence bring luck.

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

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

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

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#10. A good garden may have some weeds.

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

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

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

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#14. The more wit the less courage.

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

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

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

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#18. Custom is the Guide of the Ignorant.

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

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#20. ... the wise Man that holds his Tongue, says more than the Fool who speaks.

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#21. Despair gives courage to a coward.

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#22. Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.

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

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#24. If thou wouldst please the ladies, thou must endeavor to make them pleased with themselves.

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#25. A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell. Thomas Fuller

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#26. What was always interesting about Thomas Harris' books is they were a wonderful hybridization of a crime thriller and a horror movie.

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

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#28. get the facts or the facts will get you.

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

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

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

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

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#33. All doors open to courtesy.

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#34. Old foxes want no tutors.

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

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

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

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

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

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#40. Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

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

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#42. Bad excuses are worse than none.

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

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

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

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#46. The noblest revenge is to forgive

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#47. Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

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

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

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

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#51. If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too. Thomas Fuller

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

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

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#54. A good friend is my nearest relation.

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

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

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

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

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

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#60. He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

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#61. Always tell the Truth : where it is not loved, it is respected and feared.

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

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#63. Health is not valued till sickness comes.

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

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#65. Good clothes open all doors.

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

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

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

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#70. If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.

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

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#72. A good horse should be seldom spurred.

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#73. Many ... have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

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

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

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

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#77. Good is not good, where better is expected

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

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

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

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

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

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#83. Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

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#84. Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

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#85. In fair weather, prepare for foul.

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

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#87. All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

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#88. Scalded cats fear even cold water.

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

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#90. Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

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#91. I read 'Red Dragon' back in high school. I love Thomas Harris' approach to the crime thriller that crossed over into horror in a way that nobody really tapped into.

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

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

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

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#95. A stumble may prevent a fall.

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#96. Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

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#97. Great hopes make great men.

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#98. Better be alone than in bad company.

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

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#100. 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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