Thomas Fuller Quotes
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Men never think their fortunes too great, nor their wit too little.
[Wit]
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Miracles are the swaddling clothes of infant churches.
[Miracles]
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Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
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Most marvellous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked for beauty, make flowers bloom even on the brow of the precipice, and turn even the rock itself into moss and lichens. - This faculty is most important for the vivid and attractive exhibition of truth to the minds of men.
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Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
[Music]
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My son is my son till he have got him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.
[Daughters]
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Nature hath appointed the twilight, as a bridge, to pass us out of night into day.
[Twilight]
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Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.
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No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
[Friendship]
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No man who is fit to live need fear to die. To us here, death is the most terrible thing we know. But when we have tasted its reality it will mean to us birth, deliverance, a new creation of ourselves. It will be what health is to the sick man; what home is to the exile; what the loved one given back is to the bereaved. As we draw near to it a solemn gladness should fill our hearts. It is God's great morning lighting up the sky. Our fears are the terror of children in the night. The night with its terrors, its darkness, its feverish dreams, is passing away; and when we awake it will be into the sunlight of God.
[Death]
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No one can lay himself under obligation to do a wrong thing. Pericles, when one of his friends asked his services in an unjust cause, excused himself, saying, "lama friend only as far as the altar.
[Friendship]
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None can pray well but he that lives well.
[Prayer]
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Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.
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Old foxes want no tutors.
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One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.
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One may miss the mark by aiming too high, as too low.
[Goals]
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One that will not plead that cause wherein his tongue must be confuted by his conscience.
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One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
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Our eyes, when gazing on sinful objects, are out of their calling, and out of God's keeping.
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