TFThomas Fuller

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Thomas Fuller

Life dates: 1608 AD — 1661 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1634 AD

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

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02c. 1634 AD

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

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03c. 1634 AD

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

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04c. 1634 AD

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

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05c. 1634 AD

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

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06c. 1634 AD

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

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07c. 1634 AD

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

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08c. 1634 AD

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

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09c. 1634 AD

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

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10c. 1634 AD

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

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11c. 1634 AD

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.

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