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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
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Inner and Outer London
Ignorance
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Knowledge
Universe
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Things
Ease
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Everywhere
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Love with life is heaven and life, unloving, hell.
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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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A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made it vast. Despise not thou small things, either for evil or for good for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth.
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