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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Martin Farquhar Tupper
Born: 1810
Born: July 17
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Inner and Outer London
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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.
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Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth, but that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out evil.
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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.
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Love looketh from the eye, and kindleth love by looking.
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As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.
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Never give up! If adversity presses, Providence wisely has mingled the cup, And the best counsel, in all your distresses, Is the stout watchword of Never give up.
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Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.
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A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made it vast. Despise not thou small things, either for evil or for good for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth.
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Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.
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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.
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Hate furroweth the brow and a man may frown till he hateth.
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There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundlessAnd the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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He who commits a wrong will himself inevitably see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty.
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