Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Born: 1810
Born: July 17
Poet
Writer
Inner and Outer London
Mind
Sturdy
Readily
False
Deny
Argument
Wisdom
Others
Expound
True
Laboring
More quotes by 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
Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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
For life, good youth, hath never an illWhich hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot killAnd stubborn realities never shall bindThe free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
He who commits a wrong will himself inevitably see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Error is a hardy plant it flourisheth in every soil 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
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
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
Error is a hardy plant it flourishes in every soil.
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
Clamorous pauperism feastest While honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Confidence is conqueror of men victorious both over them and in them The iron will of one stout heart shall make a thousand quail A feeble dwarf, dauntlessly resolved, will turn the tide of battle, And rally to a nobler strife the giants that had fled.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Wealth oft-times killeth, where want but hindered the budding.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Economy, the poor man's mint.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundlessAnd the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
Martin Farquhar Tupper