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Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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Martin Farquhar Tupper
Born: 1810
Born: July 17
Poet
Writer
Inner and Outer London
Error
Errors
Surface
Truth
Spurn
Seeming

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If wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand his tongue is eloquent to tempt lust of many harms is lurking in his eye he hath a hollow heart use him cautiously.
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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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Lay not the plummet to the line religion hath no landmarks no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.
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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
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Confidence is conqueror of men victorious both over them and in them The iron will of one stout heart shall make a thousand quail A feeble dwarf, dauntlessly resolved, will turn the tide of battle, And rally to a nobler strife the giants that had fled.
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Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.
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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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As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.
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Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.
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Hope and be happy that all's for the best!
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Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.
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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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Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee but answer thou their language with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet.
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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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For life, good youth, hath never an illWhich hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot killAnd stubborn realities never shall bindThe free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.
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Wealth oft-times killeth, where want but hindered the budding.
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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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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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