“Miracles are the swaddling-clothes of infant churches.”
The Church History of Britain; Book 4, Section 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=AkcaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Miracles+are+the+swaddling+clothes+of+infant+churches%22&pg=PA239#v=onepage (1655)
Thomas Fuller: Frases em inglês
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“Do not in an instant what an age cannot recompense.”
Of Anger.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)
“Though blood be the best sauce for victory, yet must it not be more than the meat.”
The History of the Holy War (1639), Book I, Ch. 24.
“Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.”
Of Anger.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)
“The lion is not so fierce as painted.”
Of Preferment. Compare: "is bark is worse than his bite", George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)
Of Natural Fools.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)
“Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing.”
Of Fame.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)
“The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.”
Of Tombs.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)
“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.”
The History of the Worthies of England (1662): Musicians.
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 579.
Of Anger.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)
Of Jesting.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)