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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Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love
Pride will spit in pride's face
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low
Old foxes want no tutors
Nothing is easy to the unwilling
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune
Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness
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 the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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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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