Quotes by Fuller, Thomas

"Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof."

Fuller, Thomas on learning   

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"We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed."

Fuller, Thomas on life
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"Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm."

Fuller, Thomas on anger   

"Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind."

Fuller, Thomas on anger   

"Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help."

Fuller, Thomas on anger
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"He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it."

Fuller, Thomas on appearance
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"He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much."

Fuller, Thomas on appreciation
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"Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building."

Fuller, Thomas on architecture   

"Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument."

Fuller, Thomas on argument   

"When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife continues long, usually both become guilty."

Fuller, Thomas on argument
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"Soft words are hard arguments."

Fuller, Thomas on argument   

"If a man falls once, all will tread upon him."

Fuller, Thomas on losers and losing   

"If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter."

Fuller, Thomas on marriage
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"Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones."

Fuller, Thomas on marriage   

"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."

Fuller, Thomas on memory   

"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."

Fuller, Thomas on memory   

"We have all forgot more than we remember."

Fuller, Thomas on memory   

"Misfortunes tell us what fortune is."

Fuller, Thomas on misfortunes
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"God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man."

Fuller, Thomas on money   

"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!"

Fuller, Thomas on paradise   

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

Fuller, Thomas on passion
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"It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf."

Fuller, Thomas on peace
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"Poor men's reasons are not heard."

Fuller, Thomas on poverty and the poor   

"He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none."

Fuller, Thomas on power   

"Today is yesterday's pupil."

Fuller, Thomas on present   

"Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak."

Fuller, Thomas on pride   

"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing."

Fuller, Thomas on promises   

"Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them."

Fuller, Thomas on promises   

"Better break your word than do worse in keeping it."

Fuller, Thomas on promises   

"Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money."

Fuller, Thomas on purpose   

"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."

Fuller, Thomas on repentance   

"Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites."

Fuller, Thomas on riches   

"He is rich that is satisfied."

Fuller, Thomas on action   

"He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil."

Fuller, Thomas on sin   

"A generous confession disarms slander."

Fuller, Thomas on slander   

"He does not believe that does not live according to his belief ."

Fuller, Thomas on belief
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"Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love."

Fuller, Thomas on blindness   

"A book that is shut is but a block."

Fuller, Thomas on books - reading   

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

Fuller, Thomas on catholicism   

"A wise man turns chance into good fortune."

Fuller, Thomas on chance
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