Thomas Fuller quotes - page 3

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it. (Thomas Fuller)
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. View quote
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Better break your word than do worse by keeping it. View quote
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Eaten bread is soon forgotten. View quote
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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul. View quote
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Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too. View quote
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He that will not sail until all dangers are over, will never put to sea. View quote
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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough. View quote
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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. View quote
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The lion is not so fierce as painted. View quote
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Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing. (Thomas Fuller)
The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. View quote
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He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it. View quote
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They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter. View quote
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One that will not plead that cause wherein his tongue must be confuted by his conscience. View quote
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Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high. View quote
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She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him. View quote
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We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. View quote
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He that hopes no good fears no ill. View quote
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'Tis not every question that deserves an answer. View quote
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Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves. (Thomas Fuller)
With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself. View quote
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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. View quote
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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. View quote
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Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth. View quote
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