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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make 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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Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.
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Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
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Rest is by no means a waste of time.
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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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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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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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False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
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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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Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.
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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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Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.
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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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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
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Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.
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Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
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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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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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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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The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
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