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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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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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Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.
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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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A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.
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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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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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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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Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.
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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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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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