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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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We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee.
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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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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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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.
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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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Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.
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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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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 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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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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Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.
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False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
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Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in 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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A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.
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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
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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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It always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window.
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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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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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