Fuller, Thomas quotes
1608-1661 British Clergyman AuthorAn ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
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Cheerfulness
Despair gives courage to a coward.
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Despair
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
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Catholicism
Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
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Control
Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.
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Creation
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
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Determination
Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
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Churches
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
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Compliments
With foxes we must play the fox.
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Cunning
Debt is the worst poverty.
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Debt
Good clothes open all doors.
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Dress
What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.
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Endurance
The more wit the less courage.
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Courage
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
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Chance
All doors open to courtesy.
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Courtesy
He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
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Disease
A book that is shut is but a block.
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Books - Reading
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
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Charity
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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Class
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
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Friends and Friendship
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
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Friends and Friendship
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
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Friends and Friendship
Bad excuses are worse than none.
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Excuses
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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Facts
He teaches me to be good that does me good.
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Example
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
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Learning
Old foxes want no tutors.
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Learning
A good friend is my nearest relation.
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Friends and Friendship
Lavishness is not generosity.
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Generosity
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
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Learning
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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Improvement
Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
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Gratitude
A good garden may have some weeds.
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Faults
It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
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Gold
The devil himself is good when he is pleased.
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Goodness
He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.
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Giving
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
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.
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Memory
If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.
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Greed
Nothing sharpens sight like envy.
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Envy
Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven.
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Haste
We have all forgot more than we remember.
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Memory
Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.
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Hatred
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
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Marriage
If a man falls once, all will tread upon him.
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Losers and Losing
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse
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Travel and Tourism
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose s trial.
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Juries
We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
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Life and Living
A man is not good or bad for one action.
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Judgment and Judges
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
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Hope
Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.
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Marriage
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
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Husbands
A fool s paradise is a wise man s hell!
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Paradise
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
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Travel and Tourism
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
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Inheritance
The more laws, the more offenders.
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Laughter
A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
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Passion
Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
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Knowledge
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
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Promises
Today is yesterday s pupil.
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Present
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
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Peace
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
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Misfortunes
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
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Promises
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
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Promises
A man surprised is half beaten.
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Surprises
Poor men s reasons are not heard.
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Poverty and The Poor
God makes, and apparel shapes; but it s money that finishes the man.
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Money
He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
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Power
Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
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Pride
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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Sin
A generous confession disarms slander.
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Slander
Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.
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Riches
Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.
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Truth
Seeing is believing, but feeling s the truth.
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Truth
Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
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Purpose
Great is the difference betwixt a man s being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
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Repentance
He is rich that is satisfied.
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Satisfaction
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
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Absence
He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
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Appearance
Light, God s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
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Architecture
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
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Contentment
He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
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Appreciation
Good is not good, when better is expected.
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Expectation
A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
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Alcohol and Alcoholism
Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.
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Argument
Act nothing in a furious passion. It s putting to sea in a storm.
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Anger
When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife continues long, usually both become guilty.
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Argument
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
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Anger
Soft words are hard arguments.
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Argument
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
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Alcohol and Alcoholism
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
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Gossip
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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Fame
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
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Anger
Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love.
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Blindness
He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .
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Belief
Prospect is often better than possession.
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Expectation
A small demerit extinguishes a long service.
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Wrong
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
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Zeal
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
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Will and Will Power
Don t let your will roar when your power only whispers.
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Will and Will Power
Virtue is the only true nobility.
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Virtue
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
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Weather
Vows are made in storms and forgotten in calm weather.
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Vow
The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.
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Weakness
Willful waste brings woeful want.
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Waste
He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
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Wives
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
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Wives