Thomas Fuller Quotes

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The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

Thomas Fuller
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery; but depth in that study brings him about again to our religion.

Thomas Fuller
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.

Thomas Fuller
Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long that there is no wit for so much room.

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Heat of passion makes our souls to chap, and the devil creeps in at the crannies.

Thomas Fuller
Do not in an instant what an age cannot recompense.

Thomas Fuller
Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing.

Thomas Fuller
By the same proportion that a penny saved is a penny gained, the preserver of books is a Mate for the Compiler of them.

Thomas Fuller
To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.

Thomas Fuller
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Thomas Fuller
That is but a slippery Happiness which Fortune can give and can take away.

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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Thomas Fuller
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.

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A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.

Thomas Fuller
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

Thomas Fuller
Though blood be the best sauce for victory, yet must it not be more than the meat.

Thomas Fuller
But as I find so little, so I will feign nothing; the time being better spent in silence than in lying.

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Generally nature hangs out a sign of simplicity in the face of a fool.

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Every man is a fool or a physician at forty.

Thomas Fuller
Commonly Physicians like beer are best when they are old; & Lawyers like bread when they are young and new.

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Gravity is the ballast of the soul, which keeps the mind steady.

Thomas Fuller
Knowledge is a Treasure, but Practice is the Key to it.

Thomas Fuller
If the pills were pleasant, they would not want gilding.

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The tongue is ever turning to the aching tooth.

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[The physician],..when he can keep life no longer in, he makes a fair and easy passage for it to go out.

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Marshal thy notions into a handsome method - One will carry twice more weight trussed and packed up in bundles, than when it lies untowardly flapping and hanging about his shoulders.

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Miracles are the swaddling-clothes of infant churches.

Thomas Fuller
Religion is the best Armor in the World, but the worst Cloak.

Thomas Fuller
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Thomas Fuller
They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter.

Thomas Fuller