Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Fuller
“Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage; and half shut afterward.”
“She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him.”
topics: Marriage
“They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter.”
topics: Marriage
“Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.”
topics: Marriage
“Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. It is cruel to beat a cripple with his own crutches!”
“Miracles are the swaddling clothes of infant churches.”
“Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.”
“God makes, and apparel shapes: but it's money that finishes the man.”
topics: Money
“Place not thy amendment only in increasing thy devotion, but in bettering thy life. It is the damning hypocrisy of this age that it slights all good morality, and spends its zeal in matters of ceremony, and a form of godliness without the power of it.”
“Poetry is music in words: and music is poetry in sound: both excellent sauce, but those have lived and died poor, who made them their meat.”
topics: Music
“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.”
topics: Music
“As for those parents who will not use the rod upon their children, I pray God He useth not their children as a rod for them.”
topics: Parents
“A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.”
“All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.”
“The real difference between men is energy. A strong will, a settled purpose, an invincible determination, can accomplish almost anything; and in this lies the distinction between great men and little men.”
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Thomas Fuller was an English churchman and historian. He is now remembered for his writings, particularly his Worthies of England, published after his death. He was a prolific author, and one of the first English writers able to live by his pen.
His sense of humour kept him from extremes. "By his particular temper and management," said Echard (Hist. of England), "he weathered the late great storm with more success than many other great men." He was known as "a perfect walking library." Antithetic and axiomatic sentences abound in his pages.. "Wit," wrote Coleridge after reading the Church History, "was the stuff and substance of Fuller's intellect". Charles Lamb made some selections from Fuller, and admired his "golden works."