Martin Farquhar Tupper
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Martin Farquhar Tupperwas an English writer, and poet, and the author of Proverbial Philosophy...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
friendship book reading
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
strong fear people
Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
ribs honest pining
Clamorous pauperism feastest While honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs.
giving-up dark doubt
Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.
eye
Love looketh from the eye, and kindleth love by looking.
hope wretched
The most wretched have yet hope.
influence given policy
Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season; And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts.
errors surface seeming
Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.
children ambition son
A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.
chance wands mines
The mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance.
ignorance ease stranger
Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.
wings eagles imagination
Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.
humility equal
It is the cringer to his equal that is chiefly seen bold to his God.
firsts instruction seeds
The seeds of first instructions are dropp'd into the deepest furrows.