Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Martin Farquhar Tupper quotes, Martin Farquhar Tupper sayings, and Martin Farquhar Tupper proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth, but that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out evil.Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Hatred is the atmosphere of hell.Martin Farquhar Tupper
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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.Martin Farquhar Tupper
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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.Martin Farquhar Tupper
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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.Martin Farquhar Tupper
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A babe in the house is a wellspring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.Martin Farquhar Tupper
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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
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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.Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.Martin Farquhar Tupper
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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
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Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful.Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable thanMartin Farquhar Tupper
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The mines of knowledge are oft laid bare through the forked hazel wand of chance.Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.Martin Farquhar Tupper
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A spark is a little thing, yet it may kindle the world.Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Praise a fool, and slay him; for the canvas of his vanity is spread;Martin Farquhar Tupper
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And souls of fine accord must prize a fellow-sinner's love; / For the worst love those who love them, and the best claim heart for heart, / And it is a holy thirst to long for love's requital: / Hard it will be, hard and sad, to love and be unloved, / And many a thorn is thrust into the side of him that is forgotten.Martin Farquhar Tupper
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O Christian, whose chastened curiosity loveth things mysterious. Accounting them shadows and eclipses of Him,the one great light.Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Count, count your hopes, heirs of immortality and love; And hear my kindred faith, and turn again to bless me.Martin Farquhar Tupper
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For beauty is intangible, vague, ill to be defined; She hath the coat of a chameleon, changing while we watch it.Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Columbia, child of Britain,— noblest child! / I praise the growing lustre of thy worth,/ And fain would see thy great heart reconciled / To love a mother of so blest a birth:/ For we are one, Columbia! still the same / In lineage, language, laws, and ancient fame,/ The natural nobility of earth.
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We live again, Columbia! yea once more / Unto a thousand generations live,/ The mother in the child; to all the West / Through thee shall we earth's choicest blessings give,/ Even as our Orient world in us is blessed.Martin Farquhar Tupper
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For beauty is intangible, vague, ill to be defined; / She hath a coat of a chameleon, changing while we watch it; / Strangely woven is the web, disorderly yet harmonious, / A glistening robe of mingled mesh, that may not be unravelled.Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Rich in the present, though poor in the past, / I yearn for the future, vague and vast; / And lo what treasure of glorious things / Giant futurity sheds from his wings.Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Who hath considered the blessing of his breath, till the poison of an asthma struck him? / Who hath regarded the just pilses of is heart, till spasm or paralysis have stopped them? / Even thus, an unobserved routine of daily grace and wisdom./ When no more here, had worship of a world, whose penitence atoned for its neglect.Martin Farquhar Tupper
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The pen has shaken nations.Martin Farquhar Tupper
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A baby in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a message of peace and love, a nestling place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.Martin Farquhar Tupper
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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and foreverMartin Farquhar Tupper