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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 by no means a waste of time.
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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
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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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Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.
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Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
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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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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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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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False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
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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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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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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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A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.
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Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
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There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist
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Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.
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However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.
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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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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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Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.
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