Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Quote by Thomas Fuller

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A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with

Enquire not what boils in another's pot

Enquire not what boils in another's pot

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally...

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally...

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

He lives long that lives well, and time misspent is not lived, but lost.

He lives long that lives well, and time misspent is not lived, but lost.

No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself.

No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an...

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an...

Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.

Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint;...

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint;...

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between...

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between...

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally...

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally...