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Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes about Life

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Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume.

Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume.

Martin Farquhar Tupper
Life, Fire, Brilliant
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851). “Poems of King Alfred”, p.208

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
Life, Dream, Morning
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851). “Proverbial philosophy”, p.150

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
Life, Light, Darkness
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1855). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated : First and Second Series, Complete in One Volume”, p.24

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love in all he doeth, Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume: The wicked work their woe by looking upon love, and hating it: The righteous find their joys in yearning on its loveliness for ever.

Martin Farquhar Tupper
Life, Beautiful, Hate
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1857). “Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author”, p.200

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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