Top 90 Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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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2. “A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.”

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3. “A spark is a little thing, yet it may kindle the world.”

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4. “A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.”

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5. “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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6. “He who does not tire, tires adversity.”

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7. “Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.”

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8. “It is well to lie fallow for a while.”

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9. “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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10. “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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11. “Not few nor light are the burdens of life; then load it not with heaviness of spirit.”

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12. “Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.”

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13. “One single glance will conquer all descriptions.”

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14. “Hatred is the atmosphere of hell.”

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15. “Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought.”

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16. “Economy, the poor man’s mint.”

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17. “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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18. “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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19. “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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20. “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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21. “Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world.”

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22. “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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23. “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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24. “It is the cringer to his equal that is chiefly seen bold to his God.”

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25. “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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26. “Lies can destroy, but not create.”

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27. “Nature is the chart of God, mapping out all His attributes.”

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28. “Love with life is heaven; and life, unloving, hell.”

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29. “Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?”

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30. “Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful.”

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31. “Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.”

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32. “If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.”

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33. “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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34. “The pen has shaken nations.”

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35. “Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.”

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36. “It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.”

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37. “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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38. “Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.”

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39. “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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40. “Age hath its quiet calm, and youth enjoyeth not for haste.”

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41. “Extravagance is the rich man’s pitfall.”

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42. “The most wretched have yet hope.”

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43. “A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure.”

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44. “Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.”

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45. “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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46. “Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure.”

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47. “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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48. “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.”

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49. “Who can wrestle against Sleep? – Yet is that giant very gentleness.”

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50. “Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.”

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