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Martin Farquhar Tupper
Born: 1810
Born: July 17
Poet
Writer
Inner and Outer London
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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
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Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.
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If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness, It is well to lie fallow for a while, in the vacancy of sheer amusement But when thou prosprest in health, and thine intellect can soar untired, To seek uninstructive pleasure is to slumber on the couch of indolence.
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Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.
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Man liveth from hour to hour, and knoweth not what may happen Influences circle him on all sides, and yet must he answer for his actions: For the being that is master of himself, bendeth events to his will, But a slave to selfish passions is the wavering creature of circumstance.
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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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Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.
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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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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.
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As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.
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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.
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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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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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Clamorous pauperism feastest While honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs.
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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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Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.
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Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought.
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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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Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul.
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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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