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Thomas Fuller Quotes

Abused patience turns to fury.
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
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.
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.
'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Better be alone than in bad company.
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
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.
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Despair gives courage to a coward.
The more wit the less courage.
He that hopes no good fears no ill.
Scalded cats fear even cold water.
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
A good garden may have some weeds.
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
A good garden may have some weeds.
Great hopes make great men.
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Great hopes make great men.
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
In fair weather prepare for foul.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.