Thomas Fuller

Quotes

• “A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.”
• “Though blood be the best sauce for victory, yet must it not be more than the meat.”
• “Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body.”
• “He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it.”
• “Thus, as it is always darkest just before the day dawneth, so God useth to visit His servants with greatest afflictions when he intendeth their speedy advancement.”
• “Miracles are the swaddling-clothes of infant churches.”

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Key facts

Born

1608 ( 1608 ) , Aldwinkle St Peter 's, Northamptonshire , England

Died

16 August 1661 (1661-08-16) (aged 52–53), Covent Garden , London , England

Alma mater

University of Cambridge

Occupations

Clergyman and historian

Known for

Worthies of England

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