Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Fuller
“The frost is God's plough which he drives through every inch of ground in the world, opening each clod, and pulverizing the whole.”
topics: Humility
“Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.”
“Send your noble blood to market and see what it will bring.”
topics: Humility
“The schoolmaster deserves to be beaten himself who beats nature in a boy for a fault. And I question whether all the whippings in the world can make their parts which are naturally sluggish rise one minute before the hour nature hath appointed.”
topics: Hypocrisy
“Though "the words of the wise be as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies," yet their examples are the hammer to drive them in to take the deeper hold. A father that whipped his son for swearing, and swore himself whilst he whipped him, did more harm by his example than good by his correction.”
“Many hope the tree may be felled that they may gather chips by the fall.”
topics: Hypocrisy
“Those who are surly and imperious to their inferiors are generally humble, flattering, and cringing to their superiors.”
topics: Hypocrisy
“Prescribe no positive laws to thy will; for thou mayest be forced tomorrow to drink the same water thou despisest today.”
“Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.”
“He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.”
“There is a great difference between painting a face and not washing it.”
topics: Hypocrisy
“Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else.”
topics: Hypocrisy
“We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.”
topics: Hypocrisy
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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."