Martin Farquhar Tupper famous quotes

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Witty #Powerful #Communication

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Love #Beautiful

It is the cringer to his equal that is chiefly seen bold to his God.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Humility #Equal

The seeds of first instructions are dropp'd into the deepest furrows.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Firsts #Instruction

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.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Brother #Spring #Heart

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

#Kindness #Sea #Land

A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection; And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Rust #Letters #Affection

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.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Marriage #Thinking #Wife

Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Men #Hateful #Misanthrope

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.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Beautiful #May #Modesty

Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Sea #Azure #Naples

He that is ambitious for his son, should give him untried names, For those have serv'd other men, haply may injure by their evils; Or otherwise may hinder by their glories; therefore set him by himself, To win for his individual name some clear praise.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Son #Winning #Men

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.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Mean #Feet #Answers

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

#Lying #Dwelling #Evil

The most wretched have yet hope.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Hope

Hate furroweth the brow; and a man may frown till he hateth.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Hate #Men #May

Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season; And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Influence #Given #Policy

Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Giving Up #Dark #Doubt

For life, good youth, hath never an illWhich hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot kill;And stubborn realities never shall bindThe free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Good Life #Reality #Wings

Who shall guess what I may be?Who can tell my fortune to me?For, bravest and brightest that ever was sungMay be - and shall be - the lot of the young!
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#May #Young #Fortune

Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Wings #Eagles #Imagination

There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows; I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of human griefs I counsel thee, Cast off the weakness of regret, and gird thee to redeem thy loss: Thou has gained, in the furnace of affliction, self-knowledge, patience and humility, And these be as precious ore, that waiteth the skill of the coiner: Despise not the blessings of adversity, nor the gain thou hast earned so hardly, And now thou hast drained the bitter, take heed that thou lose not the sweet.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Sweet #Regret #Grief

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Strong #Fear #People

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

#Baby #Peace #Spring

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

#Children #Ambition #Son

Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Errors #Surface

Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Men #Pitfalls #Extravagance

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.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Faith #Wise #Men

Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Faith #Lines #Shade

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

#Mean #Soul #Mind

O Death, what are thou? nurse of dreamless slumbers freshening the fevered flesh to a wakefulness eternal.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Death #Nurse #Slumber

Love looketh from the eye, and kindleth love by looking.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Eye

Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Brother #Men #Speech

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.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Children #Teaching #Illustration

Our cares are all To-day, our joys are all To-day; And in one little word, our life, what is it but--To-day?
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Joy #Today #Care

To-morrow is that lamp upon the marsh, which a traveller never reacheth; To-morrow, the rainbow's cup, coveted prize of ignorance; To-morrow, the shifting anchorage, dangerous trust of manners; To-morrow, the wrecker's beacon, wily snare of the destroyer. Reconcile conviction with delay, and To-morrow is a fatal lie; Frighten resolutions into action, To-morrow is a wholesome truth.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Lying #Ignorance #Rainbow

Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Travel #Add #Superficial

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.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Ocean #Evil #Looks

Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Character #Levers #Building

Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Men #Lotuses #Green

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

#Eye #Heart #Hands

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.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Mean #Shepherds #Wealth

True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Wisdom #Mind #Argument

To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine own mind, write. And a written prayer is a prayer of faith, special, sure, and to be answered.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Prayer #Writing #Mind

Solitude delighteth well to feed on many thoughts; There as thou sittest peaceful, communing with fancy, The precious poetry of life shall gild its leaden cares; There, as thou walkest by the sea beneath the gentle stars, Many kindling seeds of good will sprout within thy soul; Thou shalt weep in Solitude,--thou shalt pray in Solitude. Thou shalt sing for joy of heart, and praise the grace of Solitude.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Stars #Heart #Sea

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.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Sweet #Sleep #Night

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.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Happiness #Flower #Hands

Clamorous pauperism feastest While honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Ribs #Honest #Pining

Lies can destroy, but not create.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Lying

Love is the weapon which Omnipotence reserved to conquer rebel man when all the rest had failed. Reason he parries; fear he answers blow for blow; future interest he meets with present pleasure; but love, that sun against whose melting beams the winter cannot stand--that soft subliming slumber which wrestles down the giant, there is not one human being in a million, nor a thousand men in all earth's huge quintillion, whose clay heart is hardened against love.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Love #Heart #Winter

Love with life is heaven; and life, unloving, hell.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Love #Heaven #Life Is

Nature is the chart of God, mapping out all His attributes.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Nature #Mapping #Attributes

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.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Nature #Depth #Frugality

As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Power #May #Valleys

Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Power #Envy #Innocent

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

#Self #Frost #Bud

Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Sincerity #Falsehood

Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Dream #Men #Wicked

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

#Wall #Writing #World

Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Sleep #Giants #Gentleness