“6258. Follow Love, and it will flee;
Flee Love, and it will follow thee.”

— Thomas Fuller (writer)

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

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British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734

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“6258. Follow Love, and it will flee;Flee Love, and it will follow thee.”

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Flee Love, and it will follow thee.”