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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.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Martin Farquhar Tupper
Born: 1810
Born: July 17
Poet
Writer
Inner and Outer London
Stranger
Everywhere
Ignorance
Friend
Knowledge
Universe
Unwelcome
Place
Ill
Things
Ease
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Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay.
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As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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How beautiful is modesty! It winneth upon all beholders but a word or a glance may destroy the pure love that should have been for thee.
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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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Lies can destroy, but not create.
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Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
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Economy, the poor man's mint.
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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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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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