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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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Martin Farquhar Tupper
Born: 1810
Born: July 17
Poet
Writer
Inner and Outer London
Friends
Today
Best
Book
Literacy
Good
Friendship
Forever
Reading

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Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome ill at ease and out of place.
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Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.
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Love with life is heaven and life, unloving, hell.
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God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.
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Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.
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Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.
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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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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.
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Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.
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Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.
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Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence, And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet.
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True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.
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Wealth oft-times killeth, where want but hindered the budding.
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Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.
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I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness.
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Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.
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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.
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Alike to the slave and his oppressor cometh night with sweet refreshment, and half of the life of the most wretched is gladdened by the soothings of sleep.
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Error is a hardy plant it flourishes in every soil.
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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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