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Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes about Evil

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Take the good with the evil, for ye all are pensioners of God, and none may choose or refuse the cup His wisdom mixeth.

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
Evil, May, Cups
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1871). “Proverbial philosophy: in 4 ser., now first complete”, p.13

Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth, but that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out evil.

Martin Farquhar Tupper
Hate, Heart, Evil
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1871). “Proverbial philosophy: in 4 ser., now first complete”, p.52

If thou wilt think evil of thy neighbour, soon shalt thou have him for thy foe.

Martin Farquhar Tupper
Thinking, Evil, Foe
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851). “Proverbial philosophy”, p.28

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, World
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1871). “Proverbial philosophy: in 4 ser., now first complete”, p.66

Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil; And though calamities have crossed thee, and misery been heaped on thy head, Yet ills that never happened, have chiefly made thee wretched.

Martin Farquhar Tupper
Life, Evil, Sorrow
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.27

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