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Thomas Fuller Quotes


Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

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 often more than all.

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

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

Great hopes make great men.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.

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

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

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

He that travels much knows much.

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.

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