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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.
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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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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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
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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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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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Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.
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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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