Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Born: 1810
Born: July 17
Poet
Writer
Inner and Outer London
Things
Men
Fool
Wise
Wisdom
Eyes
Eye
More quotes by Martin Farquhar Tupper
Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter: To what shall their rarity be likened? What prices shall count their worth? Perfect, and much to be desired, and giving joy with riches, No lovely thing on earth can picture their fair beauty. They be chance pearls, flung among the rocks by the sullen waters of Oblivion.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to this measure of capacity precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy illustration winneth him.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Man liveth from hour to hour, and knoweth not what may happen Influences circle him on all sides, and yet must he answer for his actions: For the being that is master of himself, bendeth events to his will, But a slave to selfish passions is the wavering creature of circumstance.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Error is a hardy plant it flourisheth in every soil In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Anger is a noble infirmity the generous failing of the just the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Wealth oft-times killeth, where want but hindered the budding.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Confidence is conqueror of men victorious both over them and in them The iron will of one stout heart shall make a thousand quail A feeble dwarf, dauntlessly resolved, will turn the tide of battle, And rally to a nobler strife the giants that had fled.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence, And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Take the good with the evil, for ye all are pensioners of God, and none may choose or refuse the cup His wisdom mixeth.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Love with life is heaven and life, unloving, hell.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure the most are rather lovable than hateful.
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.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
For life, good youth, hath never an illWhich hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot killAnd stubborn realities never shall bindThe free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
