Thomas Fuller ( 10 of 107 )
Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions
to his censure.
Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions
to his censure.
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. - Gnomologia, 1732.
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. - Gnomologia, 1732.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, read more
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.
Better lose a jest than a friend
Better lose a jest than a friend
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after.
Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after.
He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul,
biting for anger at the read more
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.
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is read more
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
