Thomas Fuller Quotes

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• The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
• Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
• Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
• Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.
• Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
• He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
• In fair weather prepare for foul.
• A book that is shut is but a block.
• A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
• Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
• First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
• He that travels much knows much.
• Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
• Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
• The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
• The more wit the less courage.
• The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
• Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
• Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
• 'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

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