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Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought.
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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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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Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.
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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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Love with life is heaven and life, unloving, hell.
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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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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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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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Lies can destroy, but not create.
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Economy, the poor man's mint.
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God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love in all he doeth, Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume: The wicked work their woe by looking upon love, and hating it: The righteous find their joys in yearning on its loveliness for ever.
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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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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
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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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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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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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Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.
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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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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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Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.
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To despond is to lie ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling.
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