Thomas Fuller
England
24 Jun 1654 // 17 Sep 1734
Physician / Preacher / Intellectual
24 Jun 1654 // 17 Sep 1734
Physician / Preacher / Intellectual
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History maketh a young man to be old, without either wrinkles or gray hairs, privileging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof
He that sips of many arts drinks of none
He that nothing questioneth, nothing learneth
Good counsels observed are chains to grace, which neglected, prove halters to strange undutiful children
Give freely to him that deserveth well, and asketh nothing: and that is a way of giving to thyself
Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing
Fame may be compared to a scold; the best way to silence her is to let her alone, and she will at last be out of breath in blowing her own trumpet
Curiosity is a kernel of the forbidden fruit, which still sticketh in the throat of a natural man; sometimes to the danger of his choking
Choose such pleasures as recreate much and cost little
As the sword of the best-tempered metal is the most flexible; so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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Essays