Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Fuller
“No man who is fit to live need fear to die. To us here, death is the most terrible thing we know. But when we have tasted its reality it will mean to us birth, deliverance, a new creation of ourselves. It will be what health is to the sick man; what home is to the exile; what the loved one given back is to the bereaved. As we draw near to it a solemn gladness should fill our hearts. It is God's great morning lighting up the sky. Our fears are the terror of children in the night. The night with its terrors, its darkness, its feverish dreams, is passing away; and when we awake it will be into the sunlight of God.”
topics: Death
“Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered one.”
topics: Death
“He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.”
“Curiosity is a kernel of the forbidden fruit which still sticketh in the throat of a natural man, sometimes to the danger of his choking.”
topics: Discretion
“If thou art a master, be sometimes blind, if a servant, sometimes deaf.”
topics: Discretion
“Rashness is the faithful but unhappy parent of misfortune.”
topics: Discretion
“If the master takes no account of his servants, they will make small account of him, and care not what they spend, who are never brought to an audit.”
topics: Discretion
“Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.”
topics: Discretion
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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."