Currents Quote by 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

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The seeds of first instructions are dropp'd into the deepest furrows.

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To-morrow is that lamp upon the marsh, which a traveller never reacheth; To-morrow, the rainbow's cup, coveted prize of ignorance; To-morrow, the shifting anchorage, dangerous trust of manners; To-morrow, the wrecker's beacon, wily snare of the destroyer. Reconcile conviction with delay, and To-morrow is a fatal lie; Frighten resolutions into action, To-morrow is a wholesome truth.

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