119 Famous Quotes by Thomas Fuller
- 8/16/1661
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Thomas Fuller was an English churchman and historian. He is now remembered for his writings, particularly his Worthies of England, published after his death. He was a prolific author, and one of the first English writers able to live by his pen.
Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot
shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous
curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the
appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.
Memory
Quotes, by Thomas Fuller , Source: Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Memory)
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No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be
broken.
Jesting
Quotes, by Thomas Fuller , Source: Holy and Profane States (maxim VIII)
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Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word.
Jesting
Quotes, by Thomas Fuller , Source: Holy and Profane States--Of Jesting (maxim II)
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He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar
by the bargain.
Jesting
Quotes, by Thomas Fuller , Source: Holy and Profane States--Of Jesting (maxim VII)
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Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest
over the threshold thereof.
Traveling
Quotes, by Thomas Fuller , Source: The Holy and Profane States--Of Traveling (maxim IV)
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Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions
to his censure.
Invention
Quotes, by Thomas Fuller , Source: Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Fancy)
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Invention
Quotes, by Thomas Fuller , Source: Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Fancy)
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Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into
Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean.
And thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine,
which now is dispersed all the world over.
Doctrine
Quotes, by Thomas Fuller , Source: Church History (sec. II, bk. IV, par. 53), Wickliffe's body was burned and his ashes thrown into the
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He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint;
that boasts of it, is a devil.
Sin
Quotes, by Thomas Fuller , Source: Holy State--Of Self-Praising
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
[Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
Sin
Quotes, by Thomas Fuller , Source: Holy State--Of Self-Praising
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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.
Wit
Quotes, by Thomas Fuller , Source: The Holy and Profane States (bk. IV, ch. XII, Of Natural Fools, maxim I)
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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.
Mortality
Quotes, by Thomas Fuller , Source: Holy and Profane States (bk. IV, The Court Lady)
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The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the
names of their founders.
Forgetfulness
Quotes, by Thomas Fuller , Source: Holy and Profane States--Of Tombs (maxim VI)
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Thus God's children are immorall whiles their
Father hath anything for them to do on earth.
Immortality
Quotes, by Thomas Fuller , Source: Church History (bk. II, century VIII, 18, On Bede's Death)
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Yet spirit immortal, the tomb cannot bind thee,
But like thine own eagle that soars to the sun
Thou springest from bondage and leavest behind thee
A name which before thee no mortal hath won.
Immortality
Quotes, by Thomas Fuller , Source: Church History (bk. II, century VIII, 18, On Bede's Death)
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Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built
many stories high.
Ignorance
Quotes, by Thomas Fuller , Source: Andronicus (sec. VI, par. 18, 1)
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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.
Memory
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