Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Fuller
“If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so, too.”
topics: Greed
“Men never think their fortunes too great, nor their wit too little.”
“Try to be happy in this very present moment; and put not off being so to a time to come; as though that time should be of another make from this, which is already come, and is ours.”
“Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.”
“Thou mayst as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which make books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.”
“The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.”
“History maketh a young man to be old, without wrinkles or gray hairs, privileging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof.”
“Thou oughtest to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.”
topics: Honesty
“He that resolves to deal with none but honest men, must leave off dealing.”
“He that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater.”
“Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.”
topics: Hope
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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."