Gnomologia

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Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British

Compiled by: Thomas Fuller

A collection of sayings published in London in 1732. Contains the saying that religion is the best armour but the worst cloak, without attribution to J. Bunyan; H. P. Blavatsky used it as an epigraph under Bunyan’s name. (B. de Zirkoff, BCW 10:159) Compiled by the physician T. Fuller (1654–1734). (Royal College of Physicians; Library of Congress: 1817 edition)

CTD entry in Russian: Гномология

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Mentioned in: Is Theosophy a Religion? (BCW 10:159)

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Title for references: Gnomologia
Short description: A collection of sayings published in London in 1732. Contains the saying that religion is the best a...