One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
Thomas Fuller Quotations
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He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first.
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.
Purchase not friends by gifts when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
If it were not for hope, the heart would break.
With foxes we must play the fox.
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
The grave is the general meeting place.
No good workman without good tools.
Money is the sinew of love as well as war.
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.
He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.
He that plants trees loves others beside himself.
Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Do as most do, and men will speak well of you.
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.
Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.
Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise.
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Better hazard once than always be in fear.
If thou are a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Care and diligence bring luck.
If you have a true friend, you have more than your share.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.
If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
A good garden may have some weeds.
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
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.
He that fears your presence will hate you absence.
Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
A good friend is my nearest relation.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
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.
He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
Two things a man should never be angry at what he can help, and what he cannot help.
Enquire not what boils in another's pot.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.