WIST Quotations

Tupper, Martin Farquhar -- “Forgive and Forget,” l. 1-8, Ballads for the Times (1851)

Dave — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:01:09 +0000

When streams of unkindness, as bitter as gall,
Bubble up from the heart to the tongue,
And Meekness is writhing in torment and thrall,
By the hands of Ingratitude wrung, —
In the heat of injustice, unwept and unfair,
While the anguish is festering yet,
None, none but an angel or God can declare
“I now can forgive and forget.”

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889) English poet
“Forgive and Forget,” l. 1-8, Ballads for the Times (1851)

Tupper, Martin Farquhar -- “Of Compensation,” Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

Yet men, scanning the surface, count the wicked happy; […]
They see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man’s pillow.

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889) English poet
“Of Compensation,” Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849)

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Tupper, Martin Farquhar -- “Of Discretion,” Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849)

Dave — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:15:08 +0000

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889) English poet
“Of Discretion,” Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849)

Tupper, Martin Farquhar -- “Of Truth in Things False,” Proverbial Philosophy (1838-49)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

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;
Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use.

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889) English poet
“Of Truth in Things False,” Proverbial Philosophy (1838-49)

Tupper, Martin Farquhar -- “The Song of Seventy,” A Thousand Lines (1846)

Dave — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:52:45 +0000

I am not old, — I cannot be old,
Though threescore years and ten
Have wasted away, like a tale that is told,
The lives of other men:
I am not old; though friends and foes
Alike have gone to their graves,
And left me alone to my joys or my woes,
As a rock in the midst of the waves.

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889) English poet
“The Song of Seventy,” A Thousand Lines (1846)

Tupper, Martin Farquhar -- Proverbial Philosophy, “Of Anticipation” (1839)

Dave — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 14:01:38 +0000

Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world,
But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil;
And though calamities have crossed thee, and misery been heaped on thy head,
Yet ills that never happened, have chiefly made thee wretched.

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889) English poet
Proverbial Philosophy, “Of Anticipation” (1839)
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