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Hope and be happy that all's for the best!

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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Martin Farquhar Tupper
Born: 1810
Born: July 17
Poet
Writer
Inner and Outer London
Happy
Hope
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If wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand his tongue is eloquent to tempt lust of many harms is lurking in his eye he hath a hollow heart use him cautiously.
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Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.
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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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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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Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure the most are rather lovable than hateful.
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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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Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought.
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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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Lay not the plummet to the line religion hath no landmarks no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.
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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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Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.
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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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Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.
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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.
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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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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
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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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For life, good youth, hath never an illWhich hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot killAnd stubborn realities never shall bindThe free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.
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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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