Thomas Fuller quotes - page 5

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. (Thomas Fuller)
He that travels much knows much. View quote
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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers. View quote
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Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. View quote
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Change of weather is the discourse of fools. View quote
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Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak. View quote
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He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician. View quote
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'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship. View quote
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Good clothes open all doors. View quote
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Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins. View quote
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Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit sometimes so long that there is no wit for so much room. (Thomas Fuller)
If an ass goes traveling he will not come home a horse. View quote
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Anger is one of the sinews of the Soul he that wants it hath a maimed mind. View quote
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To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul. View quote
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But our captain counts the image of God nevertheless his image cut in ebony as if done in ivory, and in the blackest Moors he sees the representation of the King of Heaven. View quote
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Good is not good where better is expected. View quote
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Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body. View quote
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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. View quote
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Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. View quote
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Do not in an instant what an age cannot recompense. View quote
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Though blood be the best sauce for victory, yet must it not be more than the meat. (Thomas Fuller)
Many favors which God giveth us ravel out for want of hemming, through our own unthankfulness; for though prayer purchaseth blessings, giving praise doth keep the quiet possession of them. View quote
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He will make a strange combustion in the state of his soul, who at the landing of every cockboat sets the beacons on fire. View quote
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Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. Oh 't is cruelty to beat a cripple with his own crutches. View quote
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No garden is without its weeds. View quote
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