Martin Farquhar Tupper
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Martin Farquhar Tupperwas an English writer, and poet, and the author of Proverbial Philosophy...
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humility lovely excellence
Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence, And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet.
hatred deceit honest
Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.
beauty half world
Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world.
reason understood homage
Reason refuseth its homage to a God who can be fully understood.
rust letters affection
A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection; And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder.
friendship book reading
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
ribs honest pining
Clamorous pauperism feastest While honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs.
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.
humility equal
It is the cringer to his equal that is chiefly seen bold to his God.
son winning men
He that is ambitious for his son, should give him untried names, For those have serv'd other men, haply may injure by their evils; Or otherwise may hinder by their glories; therefore set him by himself, To win for his individual name some clear praise.
marriage thinking wife
When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being.
good-life reality wings
For life, good youth, hath never an illWhich hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot kill;And stubborn realities never shall bindThe free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.