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Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.
John Lubbock
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John Lubbock
Age: 79 †
Born: 1834
Born: April 30
Died: 1913
Died: May 28
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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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Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.
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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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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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If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.
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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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There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist
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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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Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
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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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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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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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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 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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Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.
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Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
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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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