Quotes by Fuller, Thomas

"Charity begins at home, but should not end there."

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"An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with."

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"A man surprised is half beaten."

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"Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse"

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"The fool wanders, a wise man travels."

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"Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked."

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"Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth."

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"Virtue is the only true nobility."

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"Vows are made in storms and forgotten in calm weather."

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"Willful waste brings woeful want."

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"The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable."

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"Change of weather is the discourse of fools."

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"Nothing is easy to the unwilling."

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"Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers."

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"He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows."

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"Choose a wife by your ear than your eye."

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"A small demerit extinguishes a long service."

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"Zeal without knowledge is fire without light."

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"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."

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"Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves."

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"Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side ;of the face can smile while the other is pinched."

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"Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them."

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"Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire."

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"Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all."

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"The more wit the less courage."

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"All doors open to courtesy."

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"Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one."

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"With foxes we must play the fox."

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"If better were within, better would come out."

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"He's my friend who speaks well of me behind my back."

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