Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Fuller
“Pride, perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.”
“Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched.”
“Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.”
“Gravity is the ballast of the soul, which keeps the mind steady.”
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“Ethics make one's soul mannerly and wise, but logic is the armory of reason, furnished with all offensive and defensive weapons.”
topics: Reasoning
“Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in their judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.”
topics: Reasoning
“If thou desirest ease, in the first place take care of the ease of thy mind; for that will make all other sufferings easy. But nothing can support a man whose mind is wounded.”
topics: Reasoning
“Harmless mirth is the best cordial against the consumption of the spirit; wherefore jesting is not unlawful, if it trespasseth not in quantity, quality, or season.”
topics: Reasoning
“A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery; but depth in that study brings him about again to our religion.”
topics: Religion
“You cannot repent too soon, because you do not know how soon it may be too late.”
topics: Repentance
“Heat of passion makes our souls to chap, and the devil creeps in at the crannies.”
“The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.”
“With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.”
“There is mention of a sword turning every way: parallel whereto is the Word of God in a wounded conscience. Man's heart is full of windings, turnings, and doublings, to shift and shun the stroke thereof, if possible: but this sword meets them wheresoever they move; it fetches and finds them out; it haunts and hunts them, forbidding them, during their agony, any entrance into the paradise of one comfortable thought.”
topics: Scripture
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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."