Martin Farquhar Tupper
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Martin Farquhar Tupperwas an English writer, and poet, and the author of Proverbial Philosophy...
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lying mind vacancy
If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness,It is well to lie fallow for a while, in the vacancy of sheer amusement ;But when thou prosprest in health, and thine intellect can soar untired,To seek uninstructive pleasure is to slumber on the couch of indolence.
faith wise men
Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as the mass of fools have witnessed.
faith lines shade
Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.
influence given policy
Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season; And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts.
hate men may
Hate furroweth the brow; and a man may frown till he hateth.
hope wretched
The most wretched have yet hope.
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.
pride sea soul
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.
errors surface seeming
Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.
love country kings
Love--what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear, A seventh heaven in a glance, a whirlwind in a sigh, The lightning in a touch, a millennium in a moment, What concentrated joy or woe in blest or blighted love! For it is that native poetry springing up indigenous to Mind, The heart's own-country music thrilling all its chords, The story without an end that angels throng to hear, The word, the king of words, carved on Jehovah's heart!
wings eagles imagination
Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.
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.