Memorable Quotes and quotations from Thomas FullerThomas Fuller English clergyman & historian (1608 - 1661)Thomas Fuller - - Anger is one of the sinners of the soul. Thomas Fuller - - No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy. Thomas Fuller - - Many would be cowards if they had courage enough. Thomas Fuller - - Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. Thomas Fuller - - If it were not for hope, the heart would break. Thomas Fuller - - A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. Thomas Fuller - - A good garden may have some weeds. Thomas Fuller - - 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. Thomas Fuller - - Learning makes a man fit company for himself. Thomas Fuller - - He that fears your presence will hate you absence. Thomas Fuller - - One that would have the fruit must climb the tree. Thomas Fuller - - He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first. Thomas Fuller - - 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. Thomas Fuller - - Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. Thomas Fuller - Gnomologia, 1732 - He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion. Thomas Fuller - - Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. Thomas Fuller - - If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. Thomas Fuller - - Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. Thomas Fuller - - Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched. Thomas Fuller - - If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him. Thomas Fuller - - Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee. Thomas Fuller - - Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too. Thomas Fuller - - An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. |
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