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“For life, good youth, hath never an ill
Which hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot kill;
And stubborn realities never shall bind
The free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.”

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Forty, l. 29-32.
Ballads for the Times (1851)

“A dream, a dream, — it is all a dream,
A strange, sad dream, good sooth;
For old as I am, and old as I seem,
My heart is full of youth.”

Martin Farquhar Tupper

The Song of Seventy.
A Thousand Lines (1846)

“A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.”

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Of Reading.
Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849)

“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;
Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use.”

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Of Truth in Things False.
Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849)