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It the best to be with those in time, that we hope to be within eternity.
- Thomas Fuller

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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
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Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.
- Thomas Fuller
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Nature hath appointed the twilight, as a bridge, to pass us out of night into day.
- Thomas Fuller
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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.
- Thomas Fuller
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If I speak what is false, I must answer for it; if truth, it will answer for me.
- Thomas Fuller
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He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
- Thomas Fuller
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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.
- 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.
- Thomas Fuller
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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.
- Thomas Fuller
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Learn to hold thy tongue; five words cost Zacharias forty weeks of silence.
- 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.
- Thomas Fuller
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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.
- Thomas Fuller
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Ingratitude is the abridgment of all baseness; a fault never found unattended with other viciousness.
- Thomas Fuller
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Deceive not thyself by overexpecting 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.
- Thomas Fuller
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If thou art a master, be sometimes blind, if a servant, sometimes deaf.
- Thomas Fuller
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Dwell not too long upon sports; for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
- Thomas Fuller
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Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations, for sleep is a recreation. Add not, therefore, sauce to sauce. Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head, which hath lain fallow all night, with some serious work.
- Thomas Fuller
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Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
- Thomas Fuller
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Nature teaches us to love our friends, but religion our enemies.
- Thomas Fuller
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Riches are long in getting with much pains, hard in keeping with much care, quick in losing with more sorrow.
- Thomas Fuller
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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.
- Thomas Fuller
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Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full fair wind blowing it with speed to the haven.
- Thomas Fuller
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With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
- Thomas Fuller
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Those who are surly and imperious to their inferiors are generally humble, flattering, and cringing to their superiors.
- Thomas Fuller