He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. - Thomas Fuller
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. - Thomas Fuller
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched. - Thomas Fuller
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. - Thomas Fuller
He that will not sail until all dangers are over, will never put to sea. - Thomas Fuller
A stumble may prevent a fall. - Thomas Fuller
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. - Thomas Fuller
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree. - Thomas Fuller
He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first. - Thomas Fuller
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf. - Thomas Fuller
If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you. - Thomas Fuller
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. - Thomas Fuller
He that plants trees loves others besides himself. - Thomas Fuller
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. - Thomas Fuller
A good garden may have some weeds. - Thomas Fuller
Learning makes a man fit company for himself. - Thomas Fuller
Good is not good, where better is expected. - Thomas Fuller
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. - Thomas Fuller
Danger past, God is forgotten. - Thomas Fuller
Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too. - Thomas Fuller
Enquire not what boils in another's pot. - Thomas Fuller
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. - Thomas Fuller
Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. - Thomas Fuller
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. - Thomas Fuller
Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship - Thomas Fuller
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections. - Thomas Fuller
If it were not for hope, the heart would break. - Thomas Fuller
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. - Thomas Fuller
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. - Thomas Fuller
Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee. - Thomas Fuller
Great hopes make great men. - Thomas Fuller
A forced kindness deserves no thanks - Thomas Fuller
If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. - Thomas Fuller
He that fears your presence will hate you absence. - Thomas Fuller
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. - Thomas Fuller
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell. - Thomas Fuller
Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise. - Thomas Fuller
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. - Thomas Fuller
Anger is one of the sinners of the soul. - Thomas Fuller
He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion. - Thomas Fuller
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough. - Thomas Fuller
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. - Thomas Fuller
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy. - Thomas Fuller
If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him. - Thomas Fuller