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Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Martin Farquhar Tupper
Born: 1810
Born: July 17
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Inner and Outer London
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Glances
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Conquer
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Vision
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More quotes by Martin Farquhar Tupper
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.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Lies can destroy, but not create.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Hope and be happy that all's for the best!
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Love with life is heaven and life, unloving, hell.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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
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.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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
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.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Anger is a noble infirmity the generous failing of the just the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence, And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love in all he doeth, Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume: The wicked work their woe by looking upon love, and hating it: The righteous find their joys in yearning on its loveliness for ever.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Nature is the chart of God, mapping out all His attributes.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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.
Martin Farquhar Tupper