Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes (31 quotes)

Nature's Nobleman (1844)
Context: Away with false fashion, so calm and so chill,
Where pleasure itself cannot please;
Away with cold breeding, that faithlessly still
Affects to be quite at its ease;
For the deepest in feeling is highest in rank,
The freest is first of the band,
Nature's own Nobleman, friendly and frank,
Is a man with his heart in his hand!

“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

Of Truth in Things False.
Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849)

“O fair, false city, thou gay and gilded harlot!
Wo for thy wanton heart, wo for thy wicked hardness!
Wo unto thee, that the lightsomeness of life, beneath Italian suns,
Should meet the solemnity of death, in a sepulchre so foul and fearful!”

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Of Death.
Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849)

Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes about love

“God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love in all he doeth,
Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume”

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Of Immortality.
Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849)
Context: God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love in all he doeth,
Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume:
The wicked work their woe by looking upon love, and hating it:
The righteous find their joys in yearning on its loveliness for ever.

“Fearless in honesty, gentle yet just,
He warmly can love, and can hate”

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Nature's Nobleman (1844)
Context: Fearless in honesty, gentle yet just,
He warmly can love, and can hate;
Nor will he bow down, with his face in the dust,
To Fashion's intolerant state;

“How gladly would I wander through some strange and savage land,
The lasso at my saddle-bow, the rifle in my hand,
A leash of gallant mastiffs bounding by my side,
And, for a friend to love, the noble horse on which I ride!
Alone, alone—yet not alone, for God is with me there,
The tender hand of Providence shall guide me everywhere,
While happy thoughts and holy hopes, as spirits calm and mild,
Shall fan with their sweet wings the hermit-hunter of the wild!”

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Adventure, l. 1-8.
Ballads for the Times (1851)

“A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.”

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Of Education.
Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849)

Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes

“His fashion is passion, sincere and intense, —
His impulse is simple and true”

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Nature's Nobleman (1844)
Context: His fashion is passion, sincere and intense, —
His impulse is simple and true;
Yet temper'd by judgment, and taught by good sense,
And cordial with me and with you.

Fashion , Passion , Sincerity

“Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure,
Crowned by consenting nations peerless queen of gayety”

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Of Death.
Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849)
Context: Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure,
Crowned by consenting nations peerless queen of gayety:
She laugheth at the wrath of Ocean, she mocketh the fury of Vesuvius,
She spurneth disease, and misery, and famine, that crowd her sunny streets.

Sea

“Over the hills he comes sublime,
Bridegroom of Earth, and brother of Time!”

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Activity, l. 1-6.
Ballads for the Times (1851)
Context: Open the casement, and up with the Sun!
His gallant journey is just begun;
Over the hills his chariot is roll'd,
Banner'd with glory, and burnish'd with gold,—
Over the hills he comes sublime,
Bridegroom of Earth, and brother of Time!

Time

“Away with false fashion, so calm and so chill,
Where pleasure itself cannot please”

Martin Farquhar Tupper