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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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If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness, It is well to lie fallow for a while, in the vacancy of sheer amusement But when thou prosprest in health, and thine intellect can soar untired, To seek uninstructive pleasure is to slumber on the couch of indolence.
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Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.
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Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.
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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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Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.
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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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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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Hate furroweth the brow and a man may frown till he hateth.
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Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.
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None is poor but the mean in mind, the timorous, the weak, and unbelieving none is wealthy but the affluent in soul, who is satisfied and floweth over.
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Lies can destroy, but not create.
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Love with life is heaven and life, unloving, hell.
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Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
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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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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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God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.
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Economy, the poor man's mint.
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