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Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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Martin Farquhar Tupper
Born: 1810
Born: July 17
Poet
Writer
Inner and Outer London
Kingdom
Kingdoms
Pleasure
Ideas
Mind
Men

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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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One single glance will conquer all descriptions.
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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.
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Anger is a noble infirmity the generous failing of the just the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
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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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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
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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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Error is a hardy plant it flourisheth in every soil In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth.
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When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being.
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A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.
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Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.
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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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A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.
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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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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.
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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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Clamorous pauperism feastest While honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs.
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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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Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
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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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