278 ordspråk av Thomas Fuller

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Thomas Fuller föddes den June 19th 1608 och dog den 16 August 1661 - one of the most prolific authors of the 17th century.
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 Learning hath gained most by those books by which printers have lost

 Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

 Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

 Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

 Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

 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. Try whether

 Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper

 Light (God's eldest daughter!) is a principal beauty in a building.

 Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves

 Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

 Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after

 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.

 Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.

 Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved

 Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.


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