290 Thomas Fuller Quotes

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It the best to be with those in time, that we hope to be within eternity.
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It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.
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If I speak what is false, I must answer for it; if truth, it will answer for me.
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He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.
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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
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Health is not valued till sickness comes.
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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
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He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
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Learn to hold thy tongue; five words cost Zacharias forty weeks of silence.
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It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
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For a wife take the daughter of a good mother.
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Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.
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Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.
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She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him.
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Nature hath appointed the twilight, as a bridge, to pass us out of night into day.
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He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
- Thomas Fuller
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It is a shame when the church itself is a cemetery, where the living sleep above the ground, as the dead do beneath.
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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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As for those parents who will not use the rod upon their children, I pray God He useth not their children as a rod for them.
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Pride, perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
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The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
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Better hazard once than always be in fear.
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Lord, be pleased to shake my clay cottage before Thou throwest it down.
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The schoolmaster deserves to be beaten himself who beats nature in a boy for a fault. And I question whether all the whippings in the world can make their parts which are naturally sluggish rise one minute before the hour nature hath appointed.
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Some men, like a tiled house, are long before they take fire, but once on flame there is no coming near to quench them.
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It is riches of the mind only that make a man rich and happy.
- Thomas Fuller
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Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.
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The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
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A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.
- Thomas Fuller
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It was said of one who preached very well, and lived very ill, "that when he was out of the pulpit it was pity he should ever go into it; and when he was in the pulpit, it was pity he should ever come out of it."
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Better one's house be too little one day than too big all the year after.
- Thomas Fuller
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He that has no fools, knaves nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.
- Thomas Fuller
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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
- Thomas Fuller
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He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
- Thomas Fuller
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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
- Thomas Fuller
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Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
- Thomas Fuller
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That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
- Thomas Fuller
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You cannot repent too soon, because you do not know how soon it may be too late.
- Thomas Fuller
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All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
- Thomas Fuller
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Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.
- Thomas Fuller
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Try to be happy in this very 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 is already come, and is ours.
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Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.
- Thomas Fuller
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Miracles are the swaddling clothes of infant churches.
- Thomas Fuller
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He that resolves to deal with none but honest men, must leave off dealing.
- Thomas Fuller
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Disobedient children, if preserved from the gallows, are reserved for the rack, to be tortured by their own posterity. One complaining, that never father had so undutiful a child as he had, yes, said his son, with less grace than truth, my grandfather had.
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A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
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All doors open to courtesy.
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It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today.
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History maketh a young man to be old, without wrinkles or gray hairs, privileging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof.
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