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Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to this measure of capacity precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy illustration winneth him.
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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To despond is to lie ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling.
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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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Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.
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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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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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Clamorous pauperism feastest While honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs.
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A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.
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Nature is the chart of God, mapping out all His attributes.
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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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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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Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure the most are rather lovable than hateful.
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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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Alike to the slave and his oppressor cometh night with sweet refreshment, and half of the life of the most wretched is gladdened by the soothings of sleep.
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Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.
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There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundlessAnd the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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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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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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Wealth oft-times killeth, where want but hindered the budding.
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Love with life is heaven and life, unloving, hell.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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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