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Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
John Lubbock
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John Lubbock
Age: 79 †
Born: 1834
Born: April 30
Died: 1913
Died: May 28
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There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist
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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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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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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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Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.
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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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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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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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A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.
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If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.
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False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
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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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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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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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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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