Thomas Fuller Quotes
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He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
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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.
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He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
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Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
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The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
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Dr. Thomas Fuller wrote: "With foxes, we must play the fox".
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Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.
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A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
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Eaten bread is forgotten.
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Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
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The worse the passage the more welcome the port.
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No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
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A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
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The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
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Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
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A good garden may have some weeds.
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Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
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He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
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Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
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'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
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He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
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It is the property of fools to be always judging.
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A stumble may prevent a fall.
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We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
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Good clothes open all doors.
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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
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First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
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Better a tooth out than always aching.
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The more wit the less courage.
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