Thomas Fuller Quotes - Page 4

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• He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

  Thomas Fuller

  Thinking, Noses, Appearance

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• He that hopes no good fears no ill.

  Thomas Fuller

  Fear, Ill

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• Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

  Thomas Fuller

  Fire, Contentment, Fuel

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• In fair weather prepare for foul.

  Thomas Fuller

  Leadership, Weather, Preparation

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

  Thomas Fuller

  Music, Singing, Sound

  "The History of the Worthies of England". Volume 1,

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• A good horse should be seldom spurred.

  Thomas Fuller

  Horse, Be Patient, Should

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

  Thomas Fuller

  Beauty, God, Daughter

  'The Holy State and the Profane State' (1642) bk. 3 'Of Building'

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• Scalded cats fear even cold water.

  Thomas Fuller

  Cat, Water, Anxiety

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• 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

  Memories, Order, Complaining

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• A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

  Thomas Fuller

  Birthday, Christmas, Double Standard

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• We have all forgot more than we remember.

  Thomas Fuller

  Memories, Remember, Recollection

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• A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

  Thomas Fuller

  Running, Horse, Passion

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

  Thomas Fuller

  Men, Differences, Sin

  Thomas Fuller (1812). “The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience”, p.31

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• 'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

  Thomas Fuller

  Answers, Problem, Deserve

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• An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

  Thomas Fuller

  Happiness, Sad, God

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 49, 1895.

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• Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.

  Thomas Fuller

  Nice, Keeping Promises, Broken Promises

  "An Introduction to Prudence".

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• A good friend is my nearest relation.

  Thomas Fuller

  Friendship, Family, Real Friends

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• Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

  Thomas Fuller

  Revenge, Kindness, Men

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

  Thomas Fuller

  Book, Lost Friendship, Lost

  Thomas Fuller (1840). “The Holy State and the Profane State”, p.162

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• Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.

  Thomas Fuller

  Be Patient, Injury

  Thomas Fuller (1815). “An introduction to prudence”, p.5

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• With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

  Thomas Fuller

  Hypocrisy, Devil, Hamlet And Ophelia

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• Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

  Thomas Fuller

  Tyrants, Cruelty

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• All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

  Thomas Fuller

  Patience, Suffering, Be Patient

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• Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

  Thomas Fuller

  Money, Pain, Business

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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.

  Thomas Fuller

  Art, Echoes, World

  "The Holy State and the Profane State". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1642.

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