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Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
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
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.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Age hath its quiet calm, and youth enjoyeth not for haste.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
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
Love looketh from the eye, and kindleth love by looking.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
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
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
Nature is the chart of God, mapping out all His attributes.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.
— Charles Tupper
Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Not few nor light are the burdens of life; then load it not with heaviness of spirit.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy within him.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies.
— Charles Tupper
The most wretched have yet hope.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
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
Hope and be happy that all's for the best!
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Well timed silence has more eloquence than speech.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
The pen has shaken nations.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth, but that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out evil.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
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
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
The mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful.
— Earl Tupper
Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.
— Charles Tupper
Take the good with the evil, for ye all are pensioners of God, and none may choose or refuse the cup His wisdom mixeth.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Economy, the poor man's mint.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Hatred is the atmosphere of hell.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
If thou wilt think evil of thy neighbour, soon shalt thou have him for thy foe.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Life is as the current spark on the miner's wheel of flints; While it spinneth, there is light; stop it, all is darkness.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
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
Hate furroweth the brow; and a man may frown till he hateth.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
One single glance will conquer all descriptions.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
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
O Death, what are thou? nurse of dreamless slumbers freshening the fevered flesh to a wakefulness eternal.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Humility mainly becometh the converse of man with his Maker.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Koko B. Ware ... his mom's first name was Tupper.
— Bobby Heenan
If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
An artful or false woman shall set thy pillow with thorns.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
It is well to lie fallow for a while.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
The seeds of first instructions are dropp'd into the deepest furrows.
— 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
True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily;False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Love with life is heaven; and life, unloving, hell.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
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
Wealth oft-times killeth, where want but hindered the budding.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.
— 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
Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter; For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence, And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
A juggler's skill hath been long years alearning.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
He who does not tire, tires adversity.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Reason refuseth its homage to a God who can be fully understood.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
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
Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Clamorous pauperism feastestWhile honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
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
A spark is a little thing, yet it may kindle the world.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Lies can destroy, but not create.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
It is the cringer to his equal that is chiefly seen bold to his God.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season;And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
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
A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
