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Love looketh from the eye, and kindleth love by looking.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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Martin Farquhar Tupper
Born: 1810
Born: July 17
Poet
Writer
Inner and Outer London
Looking
Eye
Love

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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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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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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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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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Hope and be happy that all's for the best!
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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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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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