English - Clergyman | June 19, 1608 - August 16, 1661
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
Thomas Fuller
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Bad excuses are worse than none.
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A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
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One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
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Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
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A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
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Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.
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If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
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Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
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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 fool wanders, a wise man travels.
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