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A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.
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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Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.
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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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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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Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.
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Hate furroweth the brow and a man may frown till he hateth.
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Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought.
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Economy, the poor man's mint.
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