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The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.
J. S. BUCKMINSTER
The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.
J. S. BUCKMINSTER
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
MARGARET FULLER
Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where yo...
SAMUEL FULLER
You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. Th...
SAMUEL FULLER
Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what y...
SAMUEL FULLER
When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of th...
SAMUEL FULLER
We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
SAMUEL FULLER
Surviving is the only glory in war.
SAMUEL FULLER
I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the...
MELVILLE FULLER
The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
THOMAS FULLER
One of the outstanding sources of resistance to imperial power in the Muslim world came from Sufi gr...
GRAHAM FULLER
When someone asks if you want to play Brittany Murphy, who you idolized as a child and grew up lovin...
AMANDA FULLER
Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
MARGARET FULLER
Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built many stories high.
THOMAS FULLER
In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.
ALEXANDRA FULLER
He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
THOMAS FULLER
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
FULLER THOMAS
God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.
THOMAS FULLER
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
THOMAS FULLER
Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales whi...
THOMAS FULLER
Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
MARGARET FULLER
Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.
THOMAS FULLER
Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
MARGARET FULLER
In southern and central Africa, tragedy roared at us, and we roared back. We shared dramas publicly,...
ALEXANDRA FULLER
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has...
THOMAS FULLER
It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring considerable profit, to carry Charcoals t...
THOMAS FULLER
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in t...
THOMAS FULLER
Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.
THOMAS FULLER
Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
THOMAS FULLER
Today is yesterday's pupil.
THOMAS FULLER
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
THOMAS FULLER
He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
THOMAS FULLER
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
THOMAS FULLER
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetual...
MARGARET FULLER
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of...
THOMAS FULLER
Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed o...
THOMAS FULLER
We have all forgot more than we remember.
THOMAS FULLER
A good garden may have some weeds.
THOMAS FULLER