Thomas Fuller - The Holy State and the Profane State (1640)

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

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

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

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

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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.

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Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing.

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Do not in an instant what an age cannot recompense.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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