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Thomas Fuller
English
Clergyman
About the author
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Heart
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Health
#Sickness
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Friend
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Art
#Blind
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Being
#Man
#Difference
He that travels much knows much.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
He that hopes no good fears no ill.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Eye
He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Man
#Sin
#Devil
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Man
He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Will
#Wife
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Nothing
#Poor
#Promise
He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Poor
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Belief
If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Will
#Home
Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Day
#Night
#Key
The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Lies
#Devil
#Miser
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Being
#Pleasure
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Friendship
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Heir
The more wit the less courage.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Wit
#Courage
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Man
#Fool
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Nothing
#Heart
#Tongue
Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Will
Scalded cats fear even cold water.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Fear
#Water
#Cats
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Promises
#Superstition
Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Pride
#Humility
Today is yesterday's pupil.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Today
#Yesterday
Poor men's reasons are not heard.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Poor
#Men
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
Pride will spit in pride's face.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Will
#Pride
Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Kindness
With foxes we must play the fox.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Play
With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Action
#Devil
#Devotion
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Men
#Sea
#Wine
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Sincerity
We have all forgot more than we remember.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Question
Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Storms
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Men
#Bachelors
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Man
#Help
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Man
#Fool
#Travel
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Mind
#Memory
#Treasure
#Monuments
'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Strength
#Skill
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#May
'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Wrong
We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Complaining
A good friend is my nearest relation.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Friend
A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Wife
#Man
#Fortune
A man is not good or bad for one action.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Action
#Man
A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Man
#Passion
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Man
#Skill
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Lie
#Scandal
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Time
#Nothing
#Music
A good garden may have some weeds.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#May
#Garden
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Love
#Absence
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Present
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Jury
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Man
#Fool
#Paradise
A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Money
A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Time
#Nothing
#Conservative
#First
A book that is shut is but a block.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
A good horse should be seldom spurred.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#God
#Worth
#Cheerfulness
#Sadness
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Nothing
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Man
#Friend
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Light
#Knowledge
#Fire
#Zeal
Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Men
#Revenge
#Kindness
Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Clothes
#Church
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.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Want
#Nothing
#Judgment
#Memory
#Order
#Thoughts
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Chance
#Man
#Fortune
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Anger
#Soul
A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Woman
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Men
#Determination
#Lies
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
All doors open to courtesy.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Open
#Courtesy
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Patience
Abused patience turns to fury.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Patience
Old foxes want no tutors.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Want
#Old
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#God
#Building
#Daughter
#Light
#Beauty
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Men
In fair weather prepare for foul.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Weather
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Fear
#Cruelty
Despair gives courage to a coward.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Courage
#Despair
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Will
#Power
Eaten bread is forgotten.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Right
#Will
#Wrong
#Facts
Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Wife
#First
#Conquest
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Fire
#Contentment
Better a tooth out than always aching.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
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.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Art
#World
#Actions
#Fame
#Echo
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Nothing
#Compliments
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Eye
#Wife
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Home
#End
#Charity
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Weather
#Change
#Fools
Care and diligence bring luck.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Luck
#Diligence
#Care
Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Day
Better be alone than in bad company.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Company
Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#May
#Money
#Business
Bad excuses are worse than none.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Excuses
Great hopes make great men.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Men
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Word
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Wife
#Daughter
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Friend
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.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Smile
#Society
#Class
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Heart
#Mind
#Memories
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Books
#Learning
It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Blame
#Praise
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
Thomas Fuller,
English
Clergyman
#Talk
#Peace
#Sheep
#Madness