Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Fuller
“Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.”
“Lord, be pleased to shake my clay cottage before Thou throwest it down.”
topics: Justice
“Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.”
“He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived, but lost. God is better than his promise if he takes from him a long lease, and gives him a free hold of a better value.”
“Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations, for sleep is a recreation. Add not, therefore, sauce to sauce. Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head, which hath lain fallow all night, with some serious work.”
topics: Laziness
“All the while that thou livest ill, thou hast the trouble, distraction, and inconveniences of life, but not the sweet and true use of it.”
topics: Life
“He will be immortal who liveth till he be stoned by one without fault.”
topics: Life
“To smell a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.”
topics: Life
“Nature hath appointed the twilight, as a bridge, to pass us out of night into day.”
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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."