Thomas Fuller Quotes

It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

It is the property of fools to be always judging.

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

The noblest revenge is to forgive

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

The worse the passage the more welcome the port.

Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.

Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger or higher or wider, nothing is more pleasant, nothing fuller, and nothing better in heaven or on earth, for love is born of God and cannot rest except in God, Who is created above all things.

Good is not good, where better is expected

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

Great hopes make great men.

You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter.

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.

It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

With foxes we must play the fox.

Good clothes open all doors.

A book that is shut is but a block.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.

Good is not good, where better is expected.

Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.

Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship

A good friend is my nearest relation.

If an ass goes travelling, he'll not come home a horse.

get the facts or the facts will get you.

Love is a mighty power, a great and complete good; Love alone lightens every burden, and makes the rough places smooth. It bears every hardship as though it were nothing, and renders all bitterness sweet and acceptable. The love of Jesus is noble, and inspires us to great deeds; it moves us always to desire perfection. Love aspires to high things, and is held back by nothing base. Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down. Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger, nothing higher, nothing wider, nothing more pleasant, nothing fuller or better in heaven or earth; for love is born of God, and can rest only in God above all created things. Love flies, runs, leaps for joy; it is free and unrestrained. Love gives all for all, resting in One who is highest above all things, from whom every good flows and proceeds. Love does not regard the gifts, but turns to the Giver of all good gifts. Love knows no limits, but ardently transcends all bounds. Love feels no burden, takes no account of toil, attempts things beyond its strength; love sees nothing as impossible, for it feels able to achieve all things. Love therefore does great things; it is strange and effective; while he who lacks love faints and fails.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

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

A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library.

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

It was language I loved, not meaning. I liked poetry better when I wasn't sure what it meant. Eliot has said that the meaning of the poem is provided to keep the mind busy while the poem gets on with its work -- like the bone thrown to the dog by the robber so he can get on with his work. . . . Is beauty a reminder of something we once knew, with poetry one of its vehicles? Does it give us a brief vision of that 'rarely glimpsed bright face behind/ the apparency of things'? Here, I suppose, we ought to try the impossible task of defining poetry. No one definition will do. But I must admit to a liking for the words of Thomas Fuller, who said: 'Poetry is a dangerous honey. I advise thee only to taste it with the Tip of thy finger and not to live upon it. If thou do'st, it will disorder thy Head and give thee dangerous Vertigos.

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

The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

In fair weather, prepare for foul.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

With thanks to Hawkins Fuller (I got the job. You’re wonderful.) Timothy Laughlin

...the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

My mind is a center of Divine operation. The Divine operation is always for expansion and fuller expression, and this means the production of something beyond what has gone before, something entirely new, not included in the past experience, though proceeding out of it by an orderly sequence of growth. Therefore, since the Divine cannot change its inherent nature, it must operate in the same manner with me; consequently, in my own special world, of which I am the center, it will move forward to produce new conditions, always in advance of any that have gone before.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Praise makes good Men better, and bad Men worse.

A fool’s paradise is a wise man’s hell.” Thomas Fuller

... One that would have the fruit must climb the tree... Great hopes make great men... Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship... All things are difficult before they are easy....

If thou wouldst please the ladies, thou must endeavor to make them pleased with themselves.

Better hazard once than always be in fear.

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

Tis better for thee to be wise and not seem so, than to seem wise and not be so: Yet Men, for the most Part, desire and endeavor the contrary.

Danger past, God is forgotten.

It was amazing, indeed, to find how great a matter the life of the obscure dairy had become to him. And though new love was to be held partly responsible for this it was not solely so. Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king. Looking at it thus he found that life was to be seen of the same magnitude here as elsewhere.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Be the business never so painful you may have done it for money

Men apt to promise, are apt to forget.

Nothing costs so much as what is given us.

All things are difficult before they are easy

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil. —Thomas Fuller

If it were not for hope, the heart would break.” –Thomas Fuller

My worry is that what you measure yourself with ends up defining you. You pour yourself into the thing that measures you and it defines you. And I just hope that one day you find out that you're fuller when you measure yourself in love and people and moments, instead of things, adoration and money.

At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.

Experiential sanctification is an ongoing process of daily rededication, reconsecration, mortification, and vivification of the whole person to God. It calls for believers to live out their baptism in time so as to allow new challenges and circumstances to draw them further on toward the fuller reception of grace and the deepening of purity of heart

Custom is the Guide of the Ignorant.

Always tell the Truth : where it is not loved, it is respected and feared.

If a friend tell thee a fault, imagine always that he telleth thee not the whole.

Unschuld ist kein Schutz.

Да говориш без да мислиш, значи да стреляш без да се целиш.

Добър език - добро оръжие.

One is not bound to believe that all the water is deep that is muddy.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

... the wise Man that holds his Tongue, says more than the Fool who speaks.

One is not bound to believe that all that is muddy is deep.

If any one giveth thee excessive Praises more than can handsomely belong to thee, thou art to think of him, that he taketh thee for vain and credulous, and easy to be deceived, and effectually a Fool.

When thou shewest Respect to any one, see that thy Submissions be proportionable to the Homage thou owest him. There is Stupidity and Pride in doing too little; but in over acting of it, there is Abjection and Hypocrisy.

Thou mayst as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which make books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

Is beauty a reminder of something we once knew, with poetry one of its vehicles? Does it give us a brief vision of that 'rarely glimpsed bright face behind/ the apparency of things'? Here, I suppose, we ought to try the impossible task of defining poetry. No one definition will do. But I must admit to a liking for the words of Thomas Fuller, who said: 'Poetry is a dangerous honey. I advise thee only to taste it with the Tip of thy finger and not to live upon it. If thou do'st, it will disorder thy Head and give thee dangerous Vertigos.

The poor labourer owns his sleep and his stool, and can sell his piss to the fuller, whereas the king's piss and stool is the property of all England...should his bowel be loose, its product is taken away in a bowl under an embroidered cloth. They can only judge what is within him, by what comes out: a pity he is not made of glass.

Also, Emmanuel had a mop of snowy hair and a pure, remote look. These features helped him a lot in his work. Whatever you say it is bound to sound fuller and wiser if it is said beneath a layer of white hair. And with a pure look in a world running so much to dirt and antics whose trade mark is a blush, you can often make a whole career without ever bothering to open your mouth except to eat.

Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king. Looking at it thus he found that life was to be seen of the same magnitude here as elsewhere. Despite his heterodoxy, faults, and weaknesses, Clare was a man with a conscience. Tess was no insignificant creature to toy with and dismiss; but a woman living her precious life--a life which, to herself who endured or enjoyed it, possessed as great a dimension as the life of the mightiest to himself. Upon her sensations the whole world depended to Tess; through her existence all her fellow-creatures existed, to her. The universe itself only came into being for Tess on the particular day in the particular year in which she was born. This consciousness upon which he had intruded was the single opportunity of existence ever vouchsafed to Tess by an unsympathetic First Cause--her all; her every and only chance. How then should he look upon her as of less consequence than himself; as a pretty trifle to caress and grow weary of; and not deal in the greatest seriousness with the affection which he knew that he had awakened in her--so fervid and so impressionable as she was under her reserve; in order that it might not agonize and wreck her?

Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every heavy burden light, and equaliseth every inequality. For it beareth the burden and maketh it no burden, it maketh every bitter thing to be sweet and of good taste. The surpassing love of Jesus impelleth to great works, and exciteth to the continual desiring of greater perfection. Love willeth to be raised up, and not to be held down by any mean thing. Love willeth to be free and aloof from all worldly affection, lest its inward power of vision be hindered, lest it be entangled by any worldly prosperity or overcome by adversity. Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger, nothing loftier, nothing broader, nothing pleasanter, nothing fuller or better in heaven nor on earth, for love was born of God and cannot rest save in God above all created things.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved." - Thomas Fuller

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too. Thomas Fuller

adequate? Is there any dilemma for which Jesus does not have wisdom? Is it possible to experience any challenge for which Jesus is not equipped? If you have Jesus—the living-right-now Jesus—then you have all you need. What concerns you right now? What frightens you? Hand it over to Jesus, who is closer to you and more available to you than any mere human being can ever be. Sit quietly, and let the reality of his presence settle on you. Take time to be aware. Be present to the Presence. Christ in me, let me live with such keen attentiveness to your indwelling life that you are the focal point that defines how I see every circumstance. On the first day of Pentecost He returned, not this time to be with them externally—clothed with that sinless humanity that God had prepared for Him, being conceived of the Spirit in the womb of Mary—but now to be in them imparting to them His own divine nature, clothing Himself with their humanity. . . . He spoke with their lips. He worked with their hands. This was the miracle of new birth and this remains the very heart of the gospel. —MAJOR W. IAN THOMAS (1914–2007), English writer and theology teacher

The Way to think we have enough, is not to desire to have too much.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything, and in this lies the great distinction between great man and little man. - Thomas Fuller

We have all forgot more than we remember.