All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller, M.D.
Gnomologia cover page (London, 1732)- Gnomologia: … 1732 : Fuller, Thomas, M.D. of Queen’s College, Cambridge (archive.org)
- Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; wise sentences and witty saying, ancient and modern, foreign and British
- Thomas Fuller (writer) (Wikipedia)
Thomas Fuller, M.D. (24 June 1654 – 17 September 1734) 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 (321 pp., London: Barker and Bettesworth Hitch) which includes the words, “Be you never so high, the law is above you”.