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We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
John Lubbock
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John Lubbock
Age: 79 †
Born: 1834
Born: April 30
Died: 1913
Died: May 28
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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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It always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window.
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If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.
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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 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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There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist
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Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
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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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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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Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.
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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 must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee.
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Rest is by no means a waste of time.
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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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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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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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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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Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.
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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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