Top 90 Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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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52. “Many a beggar at the crossway, or gray-haired shepherd on the plain, hath more of the end of all wealth than hundreds who multiply the means.”

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53. “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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54. “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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55. “Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume.”

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56. “The mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance.”

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57. “There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundlessAnd the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.”

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58. “Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.”

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

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60. “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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61. “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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62. “Speech is reason’s brother, and a kingly prerogative of man.”

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63. “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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64. “Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.”

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65. “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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66. “An artful or false woman shall set thy pillow with thorns.”

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67. “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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68. “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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69. “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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70. “God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.”

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71. “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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72. “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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73. “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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74. “Reason refuseth its homage to a God who can be fully understood.”

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75. “Love looketh from the eye, and kindleth love by looking.”

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76. “Humility mainly becometh the converse of man with his Maker.”

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77. “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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78. “A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.”

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79. “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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80. “Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.”

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81. “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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82. “Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.”

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83. “Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.”

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84. “O Death, what are thou? nurse of dreamless slumbers freshening the fevered flesh to a wakefulness eternal.”

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85. “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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86. “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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87. “If thou wilt think evil of thy neighbour, soon shalt thou have him for thy foe.”

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88. “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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89. “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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90. “Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to this measure of capacity; precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy illustration winneth him.”

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91. “Wealth oft-times killeth, where want but hindered the budding.”

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92. “The seeds of first instructions are dropp’d into the deepest furrows.”

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93. “Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.”

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94. “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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95. “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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96. “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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97. “A juggler’s skill hath been long years alearning.”

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