Quotes by Fuller, Thomas

"Debt is the worst poverty."

Fuller, Thomas on debt
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"Despair gives courage to a coward."

Fuller, Thomas on despair
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"An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men."

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"He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician."

Fuller, Thomas on disease   

"Good clothes open all doors."

Fuller, Thomas on dress   

"What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed."

Fuller, Thomas on endurance   

"Nothing sharpens sight like envy."

Fuller, Thomas on envy
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"He teaches me to be good that does me good."

Fuller, Thomas on example
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"Bad excuses are worse than none."

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"Good is not good, when better is expected."

Fuller, Thomas on expectation
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"Prospect is often better than possession."

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"Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong."

Fuller, Thomas on facts
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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."

Fuller, Thomas on fame   

"A good garden may have some weeds."

Fuller, Thomas on faults
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"If you have one true friend you have more than your share."

Fuller, Thomas on friends and friendship
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"There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends."

Fuller, Thomas on friends and friendship
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"Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love."

Fuller, Thomas on friends and friendship   

"A good friend is my nearest relation."

Fuller, Thomas on friends and friendship   

"Lavishness is not generosity."

Fuller, Thomas on generosity   

"He that bringeth a present findeth the door open."

Fuller, Thomas on giving   

"A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into."

Fuller, Thomas on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Wine hath drowned more men than the sea."

Fuller, Thomas on alcohol and alcoholism
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"It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart."

Fuller, Thomas on gold   

"The devil himself is good when he is pleased."

Fuller, Thomas on goodness   

"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."

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"Eaten bread is soon forgotten."

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"Great and good are seldom the same man."

Fuller, Thomas on greatness   

"If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too."

Fuller, Thomas on greed
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"Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven."

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"Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas."

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"If it were not for hopes, the heart would break."

Fuller, Thomas on hope
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"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."

Fuller, Thomas on husbands   

"Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections."

Fuller, Thomas on improvement   

"The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir."

Fuller, Thomas on inheritance   

"A man is not good or bad for one action."

Fuller, Thomas on judgment and judges
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"A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial."

Fuller, Thomas on juries   

"Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it."

Fuller, Thomas on knowledge
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"The more laws, the more offenders."

Fuller, Thomas on laughter   

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

Fuller, Thomas on learning   

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"Old foxes want no tutors."

Fuller, Thomas on learning