M 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.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#2. Humility mainly becometh the converse of man with his Maker.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#3. My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.

Charles Tupper

#4. Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#5. The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Charles Tupper

#6. That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.

Charles Tupper

#7. 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.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#8. 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."

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#9. Take the good with the evil, for ye all are pensioners of God, and none may choose or refuse the cup His wisdom mixeth.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#10. Clamorous pauperism feastest
While honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#11. 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.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#12. The fruits of life fall into the hands of those who climb the tree and pick them.

Earl Tupper

#13. Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#14. As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#15. Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#16. Lies can destroy, but not create.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#17. Nature is the chart of God, mapping out all His attributes.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#18. Age hath its quiet calm, and youth enjoyeth not for haste.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#19. 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.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#20. I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.

Charles Tupper

#21. Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter; For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#22. Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#23. 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.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#24. He who does not tire, tires adversity.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#25. 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.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#26. 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.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#27. True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily;
False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#28. Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#29. It is the cringer to his equal that is chiefly seen bold to his God.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#30. 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.

Martin Farquhar Tupper