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Thomas Fuller (baptized 19 June 1608 – 16 August 1661) was an English preacher, historian, and scholar.
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“Miracles are the swaddling-clothes of infant churches.”
“There is a great difference between painting a face and not washing it.”
“She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him.”
“The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.”
“One that will not plead that cause wherein his tongue must be confuted by his conscience.”
“By the same proportion that a penny saved is a penny gained, the preserver of books is a Mate for the Compiler of them.”
“They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter.”
“Thus, as it is always darkest just before the day dawneth, so God useth to visit His servants with greatest afflictions when he intendeth their speedy advancement.”
“Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body.”
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“Thrift is the Philosopher's Stone.”
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“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”
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“So a good prayer, though often used, is still fresh and fair in the ears and eyes of Heaven.”
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Thomas Fuller on John Dowland
“He was the rarest musician that his age did behold; having travelled beyond the seas, and compounded English with foreign skill in that faculty.”
Thomas Fuller on Physician
“There is sometimes more Skill shewed by a Physician in not Prescribing, than in Prescribing. And there is no better Remedy for some Diseases, than to let them alone : for unseasonable meddling with them, may hinder their proceeding to a Crisis, and at long Run they will mend of themselves.”
Thomas Fuller on Richard Hooker
“[I]t must not be forgotten, that in the very midst of the Paroxisme betwixt Hooker and Travers, the latter stil bare (and none can challenge the other to the contrary) a reverend esteem of his adversary. And when an unworthy aspersion (some years after) was cast on Hooker, (if Christ was dasht, shall Christians escape clean in their journey to heaven) Mr Travers being asked of a private friend, what he thought of the truth of that accusation, In truth, (said he) I take Mr Hooker to be a holy man. A speech with coming from an adversary, sounds no less to the commendation of his charity who spake it, then to the praise of his piety of whom it was spoken.”
Thomas Fuller on John Wycliffe
“I intend neither to deny, dissemble, defend, or excuse any of his faults. ... Yea; should I be over-officious to retain myself, to plead for Wicliffs faults, that glorious Saint would sooner chide then thank me, unwilling that in favour of him, truth should suffer prejudice. He was a man, and so subject to errour, living in a dark Age, more obnoxious to stumble vex'd with opposition, which makes men reel into violence, and therefore it is unreasonable, that the constitution and temper of his positive opinions, should be guessed by his Polemical Heat, when he was chafed in disputation. But besides all these, envy hath falsly fathered many foul aspertions upon him.”
About Thomas Fuller
Thomas Fuller (baptized 19 June 1608 – 16 August 1661) was an English preacher, historian, and scholar.