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Thomas Fuller

Thomas Fuller

Physician · English · 1654 – 1734

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Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
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Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
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Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
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He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
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He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
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'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.
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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
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Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.
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Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.
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It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.
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He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
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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 the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
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The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
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With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
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In fair weather prepare for foul.
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Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
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He that hopes no good fears no ill.
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He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
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Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.
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There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
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