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Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after.


Thomas Fuller

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THOMAS FULLER Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
FULLER THOMAS God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.
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THOMAS FULLER Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.
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THOMAS FULLER Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.
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THOMAS FULLER Today is yesterday's pupil.
THOMAS FULLER Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
THOMAS FULLER He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
THOMAS FULLER Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
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THOMAS FULLER We have all forgot more than we remember.
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THOMAS FULLER A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
THOMAS FULLER Poor men's reasons are not heard.
THOMAS FULLER It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
THOMAS FULLER All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
THOMAS FULLER With foxes we must play the fox.
THOMAS FULLER All doors open to courtesy.
THOMAS FULLER Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
THOMAS FULLER Old foxes want no tutors.
THOMAS FULLER Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
THOMAS FULLER The more laws, the more offenders.
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THOMAS FULLER Soft words are hard arguments.
THOMAS FULLER He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
THOMAS FULLER Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
THOMAS FULLER Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
THOMAS FULLER Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
THOMAS FULLER A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
THOMAS FULLER Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
THOMAS FULLER He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
THOMAS FULLER An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
THOMAS FULLER He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .
THOMAS FULLER The more wit the less courage.
THOMAS FULLER Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
THOMAS FULLER He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.
THOMAS FULLER Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
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THOMAS FULLER One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
THOMAS FULLER Debt is the worst poverty.
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THOMAS FULLER Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.
THOMAS FULLER Great and good are seldom the same man.
THOMAS FULLER If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
THOMAS FULLER Nothing sharpens sight like envy.
THOMAS FULLER Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
THOMAS FULLER Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
THOMAS FULLER A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
THOMAS FULLER The devil himself is good when he is pleased.
THOMAS FULLER Good clothes open all doors.
THOMAS FULLER Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
THOMAS FULLER Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
THOMAS FULLER A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
THOMAS FULLER A man is not good or bad for one action.
THOMAS FULLER Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love.
THOMAS FULLER He is rich that is satisfied.
THOMAS FULLER A man surprised is half beaten.
THOMAS FULLER A small demerit extinguishes a long service.
THOMAS FULLER Revenge in cold blood is the devil's own act and deed.
THOMAS FULLER In taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
THOMAS FULLER He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
THOMAS FULLER Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
THOMAS FULLER Vows are made in storms and forgotten in calm weather.
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THOMAS FULLER The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.
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THOMAS FULLER Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
THOMAS FULLER Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
THOMAS FULLER If a man falls once, all will tread upon him.
THOMAS FULLER Bad excuses are worse than none.
THOMAS FULLER Willful waste brings woeful want.
THOMAS FULLER He teaches me to be good that does me good.
THOMAS FULLER What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.
THOMAS FULLER A generous confession disarms slander.
THOMAS FULLER The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
THOMAS FULLER Despair gives courage to a coward.
THOMAS FULLER It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
THOMAS FULLER Lavishness is not generosity.
THOMAS FULLER When the flatterer pipes, then the devil dances.
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THOMAS FULLER If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.
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THOMAS FULLER A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
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THOMAS FULLER He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
THOMAS FULLER Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
THOMAS FULLER He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
THOMAS FULLER Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.
THOMAS FULLER Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
THOMAS FULLER A book that is shut is but a block.
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THOMAS FULLER Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
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THOMAS FULLER A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.
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THOMAS FULLER The noblest revenge is to forgive.
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THOMAS FULLER He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
THOMAS FULLER Much matter decocted into few words.
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THOMAS FULLER Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.
THOMAS FULLER It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.
THOMAS FULLER The end of fishing is not angling, but catching.
THOMAS FULLER A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
THOMAS FULLER Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his censure.
THOMAS FULLER Too good for great things and too great for good.
THOMAS FULLER Virtue is the only true nobility.
THOMAS FULLER No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
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THOMAS FULLER Better lose a jest than a friend
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THOMAS FULLER Thus God's children are immorall whiles their Father hath anything for them to do on earth.
THOMAS FULLER He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind, That hopes for constant love of woman kind.
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THOMAS FULLER He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.
THOMAS FULLER Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.
THOMAS FULLER Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
THOMAS FULLER A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
THOMAS FULLER One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
THOMAS FULLER Better a tooth out than always aching.
THOMAS FULLER Care and diligence bring luck.
THOMAS FULLER Health is not valued till sickness comes.
THOMAS FULLER There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
THOMAS FULLER 'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
THOMAS FULLER A good horse should be seldom spurred.
THOMAS FULLER A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
THOMAS FULLER We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
THOMAS FULLER He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has n...
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THOMAS FULLER If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
THOMAS FULLER Great hopes make great men.
THOMAS FULLER We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
THOMAS FULLER Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
THOMAS FULLER If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
THOMAS FULLER If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
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THOMAS FULLER Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
THOMAS FULLER There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
THOMAS FULLER Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.
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THOMAS FULLER Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.
THOMAS FULLER If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.
THOMAS FULLER He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain.
THOMAS FULLER Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word.
THOMAS FULLER No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be broken.
THOMAS FULLER Act nothing in furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
THOMAS FULLER He was born within the sound of Bow-bell.
THOMAS FULLER Light (God's eldest daughter!)
THOMAS FULLER He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself the most.
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THOMAS FULLER He that fears your presence will hate you absence.
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THOMAS FULLER No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
THOMAS FULLER The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
THOMAS FULLER Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
THOMAS FULLER Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
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THOMAS FULLER If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
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