Thomas Fuller ( 10 of 107 )
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
He knows little who tells his wife all he knows.
He knows little who tells his wife all he knows.
Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid.
Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid.
Abused patience turns to fury.
Abused patience turns to fury.
He that fears you present will hate you absent.
He that fears you present will hate you absent.
Act nothing in furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
Act nothing in furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535 Sorrow for sin and sorrow read more
Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535 Sorrow for sin and sorrow for suffering are ofttimes so twisted and interwoven in the same person -- yea, in the same sigh and groan -- that sometimes it is impossible for the party himself so to separate and divide them in his own sense and feeling, as to know which proceeds from the one and which from the other. Only the all-seeing eye of an infinite God is able to discern and distinguish them.
Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot
shut, all will drop out of it. Take read more
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.
Light (God's eldest daughter!)
Light (God's eldest daughter!)
