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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
John Lubbock
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John Lubbock
Age: 79 †
Born: 1834
Born: April 30
Died: 1913
Died: May 28
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A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.
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Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.
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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
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A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid for in advance false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.
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We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee.
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All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.
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Rest is by no means a waste of time.
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It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away.
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Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.
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We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.
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A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.
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We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
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Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
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False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
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Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.
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A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.
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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
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Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
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The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
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Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
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