Top 100 Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes
#1. Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation.
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#2. Happiness is a roadside flower growing on the highways of usefulness; plucked, it shall wither in thy hand; passed by, it is fragrance to thy spirit. Trample the thyme beneath thy feet; be useful, be happy.
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#4. To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine own mind, write.
And a written prayer is a prayer of faith, special, sure, and to be answered.
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#5. Never give up! If adversity presses, Providence wisely has mingled the cup, And the best counsel, in all your distresses, Is the stout watchword of "Never give up."
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#6. Take the good with the evil, for ye all are pensioners of God, and none may choose or refuse the cup His wisdom mixeth.
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#8. The wise man knoweth where to stop, as he runneth in the race of fortune, For experience of old hath taught him, that happiness lingered midway; And many in hot pursuit have hasted to the goal of wealth, But have lost, as they ran, those apples of gold
the mind and the power to enjoy it.
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#9. As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.
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#13. Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every coil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth.
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#14. Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter; For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay.
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#16. How beautiful is modesty! It winneth upon all beholders; but a word or a glance may destroy the pure love that should have been for thee.
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#18. Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul.
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#19. As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.
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#20. True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily;
False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.
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#21. Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.
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#23. Rashly, nor ofttimes truly, doth man pass judgment on his brother; for he seeth not the springs of the heart, nor heareth the reasons of the mind.
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#25. Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
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#28. A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy within him.
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#29. Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.
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#30. Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.
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#33. Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet.
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#38. I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness.
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#40. Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as the mass of fools have witnessed.
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#41. A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.
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#44. Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful.
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#47. Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth, but that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out evil.
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#50. He who commits a wrong will himself inevitably see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty.
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#51. Praise a fool, and slay him; for the canvas of his vanity is spread; His bark is shallow in the water, and a sudden gust shall sink it: Praise a wise man, and speed him on his way; for he carrieth the ballast of humility, And is glad when his course is cheered by the sympathy of brethren ashore.
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#52. Man liveth from hour to hour, and knoweth not what may happen; Influences circle him on all sides, and yet must he answer for his actions: For the being that is master of himself, bendeth events to his will, But a slave to selfish passions is the wavering creature of circumstance.
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#53. Look too on this poor planet of ours,
Torn by the storms of mysterious powers,
Evil contending with good from its birth,
Wrenching in battle the heartstrings of earth,
Ah! what infinities circle us here,
Strangeness and wonderment swathing the sphere!
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#55. Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.
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#56. Who shall guess what I may be?Who can tell my fortune to me?For, bravest and brightest that ever was sungMay be - and shall be - the lot of the young!
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#57. If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness,It is well to lie fallow for a while, in the vacancy of sheer amusement ;But when thou prosprest in health, and thine intellect can soar untired,To seek uninstructive pleasure is to slumber on the couch of indolence.
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#58. For life, good youth, hath never an illWhich hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot kill;And stubborn realities never shall bindThe free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.
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#66. Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education,
But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.
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#68. O Death, what are thou? nurse of dreamless slumbers freshening the fevered flesh to a wakefulness eternal.
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#71. None is poor but the mean in mind, the timorous, the weak, and unbelieving; none is wealthy but the affluent in soul, who is satisfied and floweth over.
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#72. Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.
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#74. How dear to the mind of the sage are the thoughts that are bred in loneliness; for there is as it were music at his heart, and he talketh within him as with friends.
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#75. Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season;
And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts.
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#76. Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.
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#77. Life is as the current spark on the miner's wheel of flints; While it spinneth, there is light; stop it, all is darkness.
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#79. In a dream thou mayst live a lifetime, and all be forgotten in the morning: Even such is life, and so soon perisheth its memory.
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#80. A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection;
And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder.
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#82. The sun of the mind, and the life of the heart is Wisdom. She is pure and full of light, crowning grey hairs with lustre, And kindling the eye of youth with a fire not its own.
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#83. Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
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#84. Search out the wisdom of nature, there is depth in all her doings; she seemeth prodigal of power, yet her rules are the maxims of frugality.
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#87. A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made it vast. Despise not thou small things, either for evil or for good; for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth.
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#88. To despond is to lie ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling.
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#89. Our cares are all To-day, our joys are all To-day;
And in one little word, our life, what is it but
To-day?
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#91. He that is ambitious for his son, should give him untried names,
For those have serv'd other men, haply may injure by their evils;
Or otherwise may hinder by their glories; therefore set him by himself,
To win for his individual name some clear praise.
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#92. Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil; And though calamities have crossed thee, and misery been heaped on thy head, Yet ills that never happened, have chiefly made thee wretched.
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#94. Alike to the slave and his oppressor cometh night with sweet refreshment, and half of the life of the most wretched is gladdened by the soothings of sleep.
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#96. Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.
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#97. If wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lust of many harms is lurking in his eye; he hath a hollow heart; use him cautiously.
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#98. Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence, And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet.
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#100. When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being.
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