"Deep is the sea, and deep is hell,……" — Martin Farquhar Tupper
"Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul."
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33 Quotes by Martin Farquhar Tupper
Martin Farquhar Tupper has 33 quotes on this site.
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Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
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If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.
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Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
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Hatred is the atmosphere of hell.
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A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure.
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God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.
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It is well to lie fallow for a while.
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Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.
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Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth, but that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out…
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Never give up! If adversity presses, Providence wisely has mingled the cup, And the best counsel, in all your distresses,…
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He who does not tire, tires adversity.
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Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the…
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Capture of Nanking Rain and a windstorm rage blue and yellow over Chung the bell mountain as a million peerless…
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No man beholds his mother's womb Yet who denies it's there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that…
— Wole Soyinka
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— Frederick Lenz
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We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple…
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The human phenomenon is but the sum Of densely coiled layers of illusion Each of which winds itself on the…
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No matter what she did with her hair it took about three minutes for it to tangle itself up again,…
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Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what…
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Darkness coiled between what he wanted them to believe and the self he despised. It only made him more alone.…
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