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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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We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee.
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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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Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.
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Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.
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Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.
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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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Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.
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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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Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
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There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist
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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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The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
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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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However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.
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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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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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False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
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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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We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
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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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