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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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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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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 man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.
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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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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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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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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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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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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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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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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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The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
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