Thomas Fuller Quotes - Page 2

A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
Thomas Fuller
In fair weather prepare for foul.
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None can pray well but he that lives well.
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Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
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Poor men's reasons are not heard.
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He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.
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Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else.
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He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.
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A good garden may have some weeds.
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Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth.
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Better hazard once than always be in fear.
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A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.
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A danger foreseen is half avoided.
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Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.
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Comparison more than reality makes men happy or wretched.
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One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.
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Send your noble blood to market and see what it will bring.
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What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed.
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The image of God cut in ebony.
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We can live without our friends but not without our neighbors.
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Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations for sleep is a recreation. Add not therefore sauce to sauce. ... Pastime like wine is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head which hath lain fallow all night with some serious work.
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Be the business never so painful you may have it done for money.
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God makes and apparel shapes: but it's money that finishes the man.
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That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
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Sickness is felt but health not at all.
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Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.
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Love the itch and a cough cannot be hid.
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
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Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown.
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Be you never so high the law is above you.
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Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Thomas Fuller
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
Thomas Fuller
He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.
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He is idle that might be better employed.
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Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.
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If it were not for hopes the heart would break.
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Great hopes make great men.
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He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing.
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Charity begins at home but should not end there.
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The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.
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He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.
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Great and good are seldom the same man.
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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
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Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
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The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.
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One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
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If you run after two hares you will catch neither.
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Be a friend to thyself and others will be so too.
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A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.
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Better fare hard with good men than feast with bad.
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Friendship that flames goes out in a flash.
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We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
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They are rich who have true friends.
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A good friend is my nearest relation.
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He is rich that is satisfied.
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If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too.
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He is not poor that hath not much but he that craves much.
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There is no banquet but some dislike something in it.
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Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.
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He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
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