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Quotes by Thomas Fuller

Thomas Fuller

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

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 the face can smile while the other is pinched.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.

“Try to be happy in this 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 has already come and is ours.”