Thomas Fuller Quotes
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Inquisitiveness or curiosity is a kernel of the forbidden fruit, which still sticketh in the throat of a natural man, and sometimes to the danger of his choking.
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It is a shame when the church itself is a cemetery, where the living sleep above the ground, as the dead do beneath.
[Sleep]
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It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.
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It is best to live as friends with those in time with whom we would be to all eternity.
[Friendship]
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It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today.
[Thrift]
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It is good to make a jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
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It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
[Peace]
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It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.
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It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
[Gold]
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It is the glory of the true religion that it inculcates and inspires a spirit of benevolence. - It is a religion of charity, which none other ever was. - Christ went about doing good; he set the example to his disciples, and they abounded in it.
[Benevolence]
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It the best to be with those in time, that we hope to be with in eternity.
[Associates]
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It was said of one who preached very well, and lived very ill, that when he was out of the pulpit, it was a pity he should ever go in; and when in the pulpit, it was a pity he should ever come out.
[Preaching]
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Jars concealed are half reconciled; but if generally known, it is a double task to stop the breach at home and men's mouths abroad.
[Quarrels]
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Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.
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Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage; and half shut afterward.
[Marriage]
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Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
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Learn to hold thy tongue; five words cost Zacharias forty weeks of silence.
[Loquacity]
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Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
[Learning]
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Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
[Learning]
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Leave not off praying to God: for either praying will make thee leave off sinning; or continuing in sin will make thee desist from praying.
[Prayer]
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