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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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  Mean, Soul, Mind

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1860). “Tupper's Complete Poetical Works: Containing "Proverbial Philosophy," "A Thousand Lines," "Hactenus," "Geraldine," and "Miscellaneous Poems"”, p.185

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• O Death, what are thou? nurse of dreamless slumbers freshening the fevered flesh to a wakefulness eternal.

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  Death, Nurse, Slumber

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Poetical works”, p.215

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

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  Eye

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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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  Children, Teaching, Illustration

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• To-morrow is that lamp upon the marsh, which a traveller never reacheth;
  To-morrow, the rainbow's cup, coveted prize of ignorance;
  To-morrow, the shifting anchorage, dangerous trust of manners;
  To-morrow, the wrecker's beacon, wily snare of the destroyer.
  Reconcile conviction with delay, and To-morrow is a fatal lie;
  Frighten resolutions into action, To-morrow is a wholesome truth.

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  Lying, Ignorance, Rainbow

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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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  Men, Lotuses, Green

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851). “Proverbial philosophy”, p.19

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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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  Eye, Heart, Hands

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1857). “The Crock of Gold, and Other Tales”, p.106

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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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  Wisdom, Mind, Argument

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1855). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated : First and Second Series, Complete in One Volume”, p.247

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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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  Wall, Writing, World

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• Reason refuseth its homage to a God who can be fully understood.

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  Reason, Understood, Homage

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1860). “Tupper's Complete Poetical Works: Containing "Proverbial Philosophy," "A Thousand Lines," "Hactenus," "Geraldine," and "Miscellaneous Poems"”, p.70

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• Love--what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear, A seventh heaven in a glance, a whirlwind in a sigh, The lightning in a touch, a millennium in a moment, What concentrated joy or woe in blest or blighted love! For it is that native poetry springing up indigenous to Mind, The heart's own-country music thrilling all its chords, The story without an end that angels throng to hear, The word, the king of words, carved on Jehovah's heart!

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  Love, Country, Kings

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated”, p.115, Philadelphia, E. H. Butler & co.

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• Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.

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  Faith, Lines, Shade

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hacterus ... : with a Portrait of the Author”, p.49

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• Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season;
  And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts.

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  Influence, Given, Policy

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1867). “Proverbial Philosophy (the First and Second Series) by Martin F. Tupper”, p.231

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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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  Life, Evil, Sorrow

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.27

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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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  Failure, Generosity, Degrees

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1855). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated : First and Second Series, Complete in One Volume”, p.53

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

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  Hope, Hoping For The Best

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1848). “Hactenus: more droppings from the pen that wrote 'A thousand lines'.”, p.3

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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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  Self, Frost, Bud

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851). “Proverbial philosophy”, p.202

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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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  Sweet, Sleep, Night

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.45

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• Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man.

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  Brother, Men, Speech

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851). “Poems of King Alfred”, p.80

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