Thomas Fuller Quotes

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First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

Thomas Fuller
Deceive not thyself by overexpecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs.

Thomas Fuller
One that will not plead that cause wherein his tongue must be confuted by his conscience.

Thomas Fuller
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.

Thomas Fuller
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.

Thomas Fuller
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.

Thomas Fuller
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

Thomas Fuller
Nature, in the first compounding and forming of us, hath laid into the Substance and Constitution of each something equivalent to Ovula, of various distinct Kinds, productive of all the contagious, venomous Fevers, we can possibly have as long as we live.

Thomas Fuller
There is a great difference between painting a face and not washing it.

Thomas Fuller
He will make a strange combustion in the state of his soul, who at the landing of every cockboat sets the beacons on fire.

Thomas Fuller
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.

Thomas Fuller
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

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We are all Adam's children but silk makes the difference.

Thomas Fuller
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.

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Thus, as it is always darkest just before the day dawneth, so God useth to visit His servants with greatest afflictions when he intendeth their speedy advancement.

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Ask counsel of the ancients, what is best; but of the moderns, what is fittest.

Thomas Fuller
Some men, like a tiled house, are long before they take fire, but once on flame there is no coming near to quench them.

Thomas Fuller
She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him.

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Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

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.

Thomas Fuller
Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools.

Thomas Fuller
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.

Thomas Fuller