Dr. Thomas Fuller Quotes

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If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Better be alone than in bad company.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Great hopes make great men.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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He that plants trees loves others beside himself.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
- Thomas Fuller

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Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Virtue is the only true nobility.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived but lost.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
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The more laws the more offenders.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
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He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
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Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Fools’ names, like fools’ faces, Are often seen in public places.
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If you command wisely, you’ll be obeyed cheerfully.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Light, God’s eldest daughter.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
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He is idle that might be better employed.
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A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all actions shooting at his own praise or profit.
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If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
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He that fears you present will hate you absent.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Bad excuses are worse than none.
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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
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Debt is the worst poverty.
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My son is my son till he have got him a wife, But my daughter’s my daughter all the days of her life.
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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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If better were within, better would come out.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Health is not valued till sickness comes.
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Anger is one of the sinews of the Soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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