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

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

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To be accurate, write to remember, write to know thine own mind, write. And a written prayer is a prayer of faith, special, sure, and to be answered.
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Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.
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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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Error is a hardy plant it flourishes in every soil.
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Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
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Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee but answer thou their language with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet.
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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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A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.
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Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.
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Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume.
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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
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Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure the most are rather lovable than hateful.
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One single glance will conquer all descriptions.
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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.
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Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.
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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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Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.
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Love with life is heaven and life, unloving, hell.
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The sun of the mind, and the life of the heart is Wisdom. She is pure and full of light, crowning grey hairs with lustre, And kindling the eye of youth with a fire not its own.
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Hate furroweth the brow and a man may frown till he hateth.
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