Fuller, Thomas

English clergyman and historian

wrote "The History of the Holy War" 1639, "Church History of Britain" 1655, unfinished "History of the Worthies of Britain"

• "No good workman without good tools."
• "I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness."
• "An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men."
• "All things are difficult before they are easy."
• "Care and diligence bring luck."