Thomas Fuller Quotes

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• We have all forgot more than we remember.
• With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
• 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…
• Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and…
• 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…
• Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.
• It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.
• You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter.
• Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.
• We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
• Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.
• Good clothes open all doors.
• The worse the passage the more welcome the port.
• Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
• Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
• Good is not good, where better is expected
• He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
• A stumble may prevent a fall.
• Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
• The noblest revenge is to forgive

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