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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 wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
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Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
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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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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
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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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If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.
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Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.
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Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.
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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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Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.
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It always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window.
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Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in spring, it lights the glowworm's lamp, it wakens the song of birds, and inspires the poet's lay. Even inanimate Nature seems to feel the spell, and flowers glow with the richest colours.
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We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
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Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous.
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Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
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Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
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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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The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
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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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