All things are difficult before they are easy. Thomas Fuller More Quotes by Thomas Fuller More Quotes From Thomas Fuller Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him. Thomas Fuller Enquire not what boils in another's pot. Thomas Fuller He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief. Thomas Fuller He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first. Thomas Fuller He that fears your presence will hate you absence. Thomas Fuller He that plants trees loves others beside himself. Thomas Fuller He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. Thomas Fuller Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. Thomas Fuller I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. Thomas Fuller If it were not for hope, the heart would break. Thomas Fuller If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him. Thomas Fuller Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections. Thomas Fuller Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. Thomas Fuller Learning makes a man fit company for himself. Thomas Fuller Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched. Thomas Fuller Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper. Thomas Fuller Money is the sinew of love as well as war. Thomas Fuller Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument. Thomas Fuller No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy. Thomas Fuller Old foxes want no tutors. Thomas Fuller