Thomas Fuller ( 10 of 107 )
Today is yesterday's pupil.
Today is yesterday's pupil.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
Debt is the worst poverty.
Debt is the worst poverty.
It is the best sorrow in a Christian soul when his sins are loathsome and offensive unto him--a happy token read more
It is the best sorrow in a Christian soul when his sins are loathsome and offensive unto him--a happy token that there hath not been of late in him any insensible supply of heinous offenses, because his stale sins are still his new and daily sorrow.
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get 'em, get 'em right, or they will read more
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get 'em, get 'em right, or they will get you wrong.
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
The end of fishing is not angling, but catching.
The end of fishing is not angling, but catching.
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.
Pride calls me to the window, gluttony to the table, wantonness to the bed, laziness to the chimney-corner; ambition commands read more
Pride calls me to the window, gluttony to the table, wantonness to the bed, laziness to the chimney-corner; ambition commands me to go upstairs, and covetousness to come down. Vices, I see, are as well contrary to themselves as to virtue. Free me, Lord, from this distracted case; fetch me from being sin's servant to be Thine, whose "service is perfect freedom," for Thou art but one, and ever the same.
