| 119 Famous Quotes by Thomas Fuller
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“No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be
broken.”
Jesting Quotes Source: Holy and Profane States (maxim VIII)
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“Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word.”
Jesting Quotes 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 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 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 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 Source: Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Fancy)
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“The end of fishing is not angling, but catching.”
Fishing Quotes Source: Gnomolia (no. 4497)
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“It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.”
Fishing Quotes Source: Gnomologia
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“Still he fishes that catches one.”
Fishing Quotes Source: Gnomologia (no. 4262)
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“Rebellion must be managed with many swords; treason to his
prince's person may be with one knife.”
Treason Quotes Source: The Holy and Profane States--The Traitor
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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 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 was born within the sound of Bow-bell.”
London Quotes Source: Gnomologia
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“Too good for great things and too great for good.”
Worth Quotes Source: Worthies
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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 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 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 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 Source: Holy and Profane States (bk. IV, The Court Lady)
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“Light (God's eldest daughter!)”
Light Quotes Source: Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Building)
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“The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the
names of their founders.”
Forgetfulness Quotes 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 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 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 Source: Andronicus (sec. VI, par. 18, 1)
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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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“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.”
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“No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.”
Unhappiness Quotes |
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