Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Fuller (English Cleric, Historian)

Thomas Fuller (1608–61) was an English scholar, preacher, and one of the most humorous and prolific authors of the 17th century.

Born in Aldwinkle St Peter’s, Northamptonshire, Fuller studied at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and became prebendary of Salisbury in 1631 and rector of Broadwindsor, Dorset, in 1634.

Fuller’s witty and popular style won him an excellent reputation. Of his historical writings, the most famous are his Church-History of Britain (1655) and his Worthies of England (posthumous, 1662.) He worked on both of these for a significant part of his life, collecting some of his material during his campaigns with the royalist forces in the Civil War.

Fuller’s most famous work is The Holy State and the Profane State (1642,) an engaging collection of character sketches illuminating the Christian moral ideal. He also wrote a History of the Holy War (1639) on the Crusades, besides other works.

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If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Thomas Fuller
Topics: Master, Kindness

A fool’s paradise is a wise man’s hell!
Thomas Fuller
Topics: Paradise

If thou wouldst please the ladies, thou must endeavor to make them pleased with themselves.
Thomas Fuller
Topics: Woman

A man surprised is half beaten.
Thomas Fuller

Many hope the tree may be felled that they may gather chips by the fall.
Thomas Fuller
Topics: Reform

A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
Thomas Fuller
Topics: Conscience, Sleeping

Thou mayest 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.
Thomas Fuller
Topics: Growth, Books, Reading

To smell a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.
Thomas Fuller

The more laws, the more offenders.
Thomas Fuller
Topics: Laughter

Dwell not too long upon sports; for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
Thomas Fuller

A wilful falsehood is a cripple, not able to stand by itself without another to support it. It is easy to tell a lie, but hard to tell only one lie.
Thomas Fuller
Topics: Lying

The greatest man living may stand in need of the meanest, as much as the meanest does of him.
Thomas Fuller

The more wit the less courage.
Thomas Fuller
Topics: Bravery, Courage

Choose such pleasures as recreate much and cost little.
Thomas Fuller
Topics: Pleasure

He is not fit for riches who is afraid to use them.
Thomas Fuller
Topics: Wealth

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
Thomas Fuller
Topics: Gratitude, Appreciation, Blessings

‘Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.
Thomas Fuller
Topics: Integrity

I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.
Thomas Fuller
Topics: Acceptance

Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Thomas Fuller
Topics: Light, Architecture, Science

Hard, rugged, and dull natures of youth acquit themselves afterward the jewels of the country, and therefore their dulness at first is to be borne with, if they be diligent. That school master deserves to be beaten himself who beats nature in a boy for a fault. And I question whether all the whipping in the world can make their parts, which are naturally sluggish, rise one minute before the hour nature hath appointed.
Thomas Fuller
Topics: Education, Mind

When there is no recreation or business for thee abroad, thou mayst then have a company of honest old fellows, in leathern jackets, in thy study, which may find thee excellent divertisement at home.
Thomas Fuller
Topics: Reading

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
Thomas Fuller
Topics: Willpower, Will, Will Power

Inquisitiveness or curiosity is a kernel of the forbidden fruit, which still sticketh in the throat of a natural man, and sometimes to the danger of his choking.
Thomas Fuller
Topics: Curiosity

If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
Thomas Fuller
Topics: Aspirations, Goals

Good counsels observed, are chains to grace, which, neglected, prove halters to strange, undutiful children.
Thomas Fuller

Command thy servant advisably with few plain words, fully, freely, and positively, with a grave countenance, and settled carriage: These will procure obedience, gain respect, and maintain authority.
Thomas Fuller
Topics: Servants

He that would have the fruit must first climb the tree.
Thomas Fuller
Topics: Success, Effort, Risk, Courage

One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.
Thomas Fuller

He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.
Thomas Fuller
Topics: Optimism, Happiness, Positive Attitudes

As the sword of the best tempered metal is most flexible, so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors.
Thomas Fuller
Topics: Courtesy, Generosity

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