WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:23:15 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg vainglorious – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Fuller, Thomas (1654) -- Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2008 (1727) https://wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/77553/ https://wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/77553/#respond Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:19:07 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=77553 If thou art virtuous meerly that thou may’st be famed for it, thou art no better than a vain-glorious Sinner.


Thomas Fuller (1654–1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
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Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, scientist, author, statesman
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