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“560. All things are difficult, before they are easy.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“733. As the best Wine makes the sharpest Vinegar, so the deepest Love turns to the deadliest Hatred.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Love , Wine

“2609. Never think that the Things thou wantest will cure thee of thy Discontents; for they will enlarge thy Desires, and make the Wounds wider. The Way to think we have enough, is not to desire to have too much.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)

Way , Thinking

“1805. Hatred is blind, as well as Love.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Love

“6080. Early to go to Bed, and early to rise,
Will make a Man Healthy, Wealthy and Wise.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1735) : Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“2325. Squander not away thy life in Pastimes: There’s but little need to drive away Time, which is ever flying away so swiftly of itself; and when once gone is gone for ever.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)

Life , Time , Flying

“3366. Many would be Cowards if they had Courage enough.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Courage

“6080. Early to go to Bed, and early to rise,
Will make a Man Healthy, Wealthy and Wise.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1735) : Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“3104. Insolence is Pride, with her Mask pulled off.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“4867. There cannot be a more intolerable Thing than a fortunate Fool.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Fools

“5225. To seek a Needle in a Bottle of Hay.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“620. An idle Person is the Devil's Playfellow.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Variant: 3054. Idle Fellows are the Devil's Playfellows.

Personality

“5499. What is the Use of Patience, if we cannot find it when we want it?”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1747) : What signifies your Patience, if you can't find it when you want it.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Patience

“3314. Make Hay, while the Sun shines.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Sun

“5335. Two things a Man should never be angry at; what he can help, and what he cannot help.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Help

“92. A Father is a Treasure, a Brother a Comfort; but a Friend is both.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1747) : A Father's a Treasure; a Brother's a Comfort; a Friend is both.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“5572. When the Cat's gone, the Mice grow sawcy.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Variant: 6131. When the Cat is away,
The Mice may play.

Cats

“3769. One may as much miss the Mark, by aiming too high, as too low.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“4192. Small Pitchers have wide Ears.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“Good Reader, I suspect I may have written some Things twice; if not the same in Words, yet in Sense, which I desire you to pass by favourably; forasmuch as you may well think, it was as difficult and dull a Thing for me, in so great a Number of independent Sentences, to find out the Repetitions, as it would be in a vast Heap of different Coins and Medals, confusedly thrown together, to pick out here and there one that bore the same and like Inscription, with some other among them. Besides the Pains, such a Search would cost me more Time, than I can afford it; for my Glass of Life running now low, I must not suffer one Sand to fall in waste, nor spend one Minute in picking of Straws. And moreover, my aged Eyes being grown weak and dim, I fear they will become quite dark, by much perusing and poring; or at least so far, so as to render me unable to perfect several Papers now lying by me, which I would willingly make a Present of to you.”

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Excerpt from Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II, To the Reader (Prefatory Remarks).
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)

Life , Pain , Age , Fear