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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.
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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Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter: To what shall their rarity be likened? What prices shall count their worth? Perfect, and much to be desired, and giving joy with riches, No lovely thing on earth can picture their fair beauty. They be chance pearls, flung among the rocks by the sullen waters of Oblivion.
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Take the good with the evil, for ye all are pensioners of God, and none may choose or refuse the cup His wisdom mixeth.
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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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Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.
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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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Hope and be happy that all's for the best!
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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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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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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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It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.
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Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure the most are rather lovable than hateful.
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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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Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.
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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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Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.
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Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.
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Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.
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Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil And though calamities have crossed thee, and misery been heaped on thy head, Yet ills that never happened, have chiefly made thee wretched.
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Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.
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