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Nature is the chart of God, mapping out all His attributes.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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Martin Farquhar Tupper
Born: 1810
Born: July 17
Poet
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Inner and Outer London
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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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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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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
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Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.
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A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.
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True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.
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Love looketh from the eye, and kindleth love by looking.
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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.
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Anger is a noble infirmity the generous failing of the just the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
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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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Never give up! If adversity presses, Providence wisely has mingled the cup, And the best counsel, in all your distresses, Is the stout watchword of Never give up.
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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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God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.
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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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To be accurate, write to remember, write to know thine own mind, write. And a written prayer is a prayer of faith, special, sure, and to be answered.
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Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure the most are rather lovable than hateful.
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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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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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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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Hate furroweth the brow and a man may frown till he hateth.
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