Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes
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Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
[Memory]
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Memory, the daughter of attention, is the teeming mother of knowledge.
[Memory]
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Mind is not as merchandise which decreaseth in the using, but like to the passions of men, which rejoice and expand in exertion.
[Mind]
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Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
[Pain]
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Planets do not govern the soul, or guide the destinies of men, but trifles, lighter than straws, are levers in the building up of character.
[Influence]
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Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
[Prayer]
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Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revery is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
[Reflection]
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Ridicule is a weak weapon when leveled at strong minds, but common men are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
[Ridicule]
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
[Moderation]
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The mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance.
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There is no error so crooked but it hath in it some lines of truth, nor is any poison so deadly that it serveth not some wholesome use. - Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.
[Error]
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There is nothing so true that the damps of error have not warped it.
[Error]
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To despond is to be ungrateful beforehand. - Be not looking for evil. - Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling.
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Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery; enough hath never caused misery, but often quickened happiness.
[Wealth]
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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
[Silence]
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