Quotes of Martin Farquhar Tupper - somelinesforyou

“ Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. ”

- Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

- Martin Farquhar Tupper

“ 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

“ 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

“ Society is a chain of obligations, and its links must support each other;The branch cannot but wither, that is cut from the parent vine. ”

- Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

- Martin Farquhar Tupper

“ He who does not tire, tires adversity. ”

- Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

- Martin Farquhar Tupper

“ 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

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

- 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

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

- Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

- Martin Farquhar Tupper

“ Praise is rebuke to the man whose conscience alloweth it not. ”

- 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

“ Praise is rebuke to the man whose conscience alloweth it not. ”

- Martin Farquhar Tupper

“ Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger: the one lieth secret, as a serpent; the other chaseth, as a leopard. ”

- 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

“ Thoughts... have tarried in my mind and peopled its inner chambers,The sober children of reason, or desultory train of fancy. ”

- Martin Farquhar Tupper

“ Society is a chain of obligations, and its links must support each other;The branch cannot but wither, that is cut from the parent vine. ”

- Martin Farquhar Tupper

“ Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest,And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless. ”

- Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

- Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

- 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

“ Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest,And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless. ”

- Martin Farquhar Tupper

“ Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger: the one lieth secret, as a serpent; the other chaseth, as a leopard. ”

- Martin Farquhar Tupper

“ Cease to anticipate misfortune — there are still many chances of escape. ”

- 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

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

- 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
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