Quotes of Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

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Words

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

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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. ”

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Baby

“ 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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Brightness

“ 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. ”

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Bond

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

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Bliss

“ He who does not tire, tires adversity. ”

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Bore

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

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Connection

“ 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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Cute

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

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Contrary

“ 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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Complete

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

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Commonly

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

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Contrary

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

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Criticize

“ 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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Cheat

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

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Censure

“ 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. ”

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Cat

“ 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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Contradiction

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

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Consideration

“ 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. ”

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Diminish

“ 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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Drudge

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

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Discourse

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

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Diction

“ 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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Denial

“ 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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Drudge

“ 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. ”

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Disloyalty

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

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Despondency

“ 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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Deceive

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

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Deceive

“ 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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Quotes of Martin Farquhar Tupper - somelinesforyou

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

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

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

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

“ He who does not tire, tires adversity. ”

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

“ 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. ”

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

“ 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. ”

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

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

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

“ 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. ”

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

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

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

“ 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. ”

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

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

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

“ 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. ”

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

“ 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. ”

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

“ 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. ”

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

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