“What you learn from bad habits and in bad society, you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you. I tell you in all sincerity, not as in the excitement of speech, but as I would confess and have confessed before God, I would give my right hand if I could forget that which I have learned in bad society.”
Quote by John Bartholomew Gough
“It may be a very little thing for you to say to a young man the few words that turn him from the way of ruin, and win him back to life and hope. It may be a very little thing to you; but it is every thing to the young man.”
“A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy within him.”
Source: Tupper's complete poetical works: containing
“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.”
Source: Tupper's complete poetical works: containing
“If thou wilt think evil of thy neighbour, soon shalt thou have him for thy foe.”
Source: Proverbial philosophy
“Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation.”
Source: Proverbial philosophy: in 4 ser., now first complete
“Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence, And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet.”
Source: Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author
“Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.”
Source: Tupper's complete poetical works: containing
“Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter; For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay.”
Source: Tupper's complete poetical works: containing
“Life is as the current spark on the miner's wheel of flints; While it spinneth, there is light; stop it, all is darkness.”
Source: Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated : First and Second Series, Complete in One Volume
“In a dream thou mayst live a lifetime, and all be forgotten in the morning: Even such is life, and so soon perisheth its memory.”
Source: Proverbial philosophy