Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes, Thoughts and images
If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.
It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.
Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
Hatred is the atmosphere of hell.
Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume.
Lies can destroy, but not create.
Never give up! If adversity presses, Providence wisely has mingled the cup, And the best counsel, in all your distresses, Is the stout watchword of "Never give up."
One single glance will conquer all descriptions.
Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.
Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world.
Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.
The pen has shaken nations.
Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful.
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.
Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.
Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.
Economy, the poor man's mint.
The seeds of first instructions are dropp'd into the deepest furrows.
How dear to the mind of the sage are the thoughts that are bred in loneliness; for there is as it were music at his heart, and he talketh within him as with friends.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
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.
Not few nor light are the burdens of life; then load it not with heaviness of spirit.
A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection; And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder.
Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.
Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.
A spark is a little thing, yet it may kindle the world.
Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure.
Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter; For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay.
Hate furroweth the brow; and a man may frown till he hateth.
The most wretched have yet hope.