Top Ten Best Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes, Poems & Written Works
Martin Farquhar Tupper was an English writer, poet, & the author of Proverbial Philosophy.The Top Ten
1 Never give up! it is wiser and better Always to hope, than once to despair. Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter, And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.
2 “Let byegones be byegones,”—they foolishly say, And bid me be wise and forget them; But old recollections are active to-day, And I can do nought but regret them.
3 Error is a hardy plant;it flourisheth in every soil;In the heart of the wise & good,alike with the wicked & foolish;For 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.
4 Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
5 There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundless And the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
6 A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
7 ..mind is wearied by study..body worn with sickness,It is well to lie fallow for a while,in..vacancy of sheer amusement;But when thou prosprest in health,&thine intellect can soar untired,To seek uninstructive pleasure is to slumber on..couch of indolence
8 I am not..cannot be old,Though threescore years&ten Have wasted away,like a tale that is told,The lives of other men:I am not old;though friends&foes Alike have gone to their graves,&left me alone to my joys or my woes,As a rock in the midst of the waves.
9 When streams of unkindness,as bitter as gall,Bubble up from the heart to the tongue,&Meekness is writhing in torment&thrall,By..hands of Ingratitude wrung..While the anguish is festering yet,None but an angel or God can declare"I now can forgive&forget."
10 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.
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