“5798. With-hold not thy Money, where there is Need; and waste it not, where there is none.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Thomas Fuller, M.D. was a British physician, preacher and intellectual.
Fuller was born in Rosehill, Sussex, and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge. He practised medicine at Sevenoaks.
In 1723 he published Pharmacopoeia Domestica, and in 1730 Exanthematologia, Or, An Attempt to Give a Rational Account of Eruptive Fevers, Especially of the Measles and Small Pox. In 1732 he published a compilation of proverbs titled Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; wise sentences and witty saying, ancient and modern, foreign and British which includes the words, "Be you never so high, the law is above you".
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“5798. With-hold not thy Money, where there is Need; and waste it not, where there is none.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“5485. What costs little, is less esteemed.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“2155. He that hath a Head of Wax, must not walk in the Sun.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1749) : If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“2437. He's a Friend to none, that is a Friend to all.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“6129. Who buys,
Had need of an hundred Eyes;
But one's enough,
For him that sells the Stuff.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“3941. Pride is as loud a Beggar as Want; and a great deal more saucy.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1750) : Pride is as loud a Beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. .
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“5142. To cast Oyl into the Fire, is not the Way to quench it.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“3389. Men are more prone to revengeInjuries, than to requite Kindnesses.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“3325. Make the best of a bad Bargain.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“872. Better be alone than in bad Company.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“4925. There is no usual Rule without an exception.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“4667. The more, the merrier; the fewer, the better Cheer.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“6126. April-showers
Bring May-flowers.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“569. All Women are good; viz. good for something, or good for nothing.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“6185. Marry in Haste, and Repent at Leisure;
It's good to marry late, or never.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1734) : Marry'd in Haste, we oft repent at Leisure.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“5344. Valour would fight, but Discretion would run away.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1747) : Courage would fight, but Discretion won't let him.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“673. As demure as if Butter would not melt in his Mouth.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“507. All Cats are alike grey in the Night.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
“2571. Hunger scarce kills any; but Gluttony and Drunkenness, Multitudes.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1736) : I saw few die of Hunger, of Eating 100000.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“4380. That which is one Man’s Meat, is another Man’s Poison.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“5968. You must plow with such Oxen as you have.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
These precepts were first collected as advice for Fuller's son John.
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1751) : Many a Man would have been worse, if his Estate had been better.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
“1675. God help the Rich; the Poor can beg.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
“1536. Fine Cloaths wear soonest out of Fashion.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Latin fragment from Vergil's Aeneid, Book XII, line 499 : ‘He threw away all restraint on his anger.’
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)