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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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Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.
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Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.
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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
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Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.
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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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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
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If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.
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It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.
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Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
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Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.
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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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A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.
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We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
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Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.
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However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.
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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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Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.
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