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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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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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Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.
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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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Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.
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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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We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
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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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Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.
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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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A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid for in advance false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.
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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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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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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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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
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There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist
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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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If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.
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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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The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
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Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
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