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Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.
John Lubbock
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John Lubbock
Age: 79 †
Born: 1834
Born: April 30
Died: 1913
Died: May 28
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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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Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.
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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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Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.
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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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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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Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
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However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.
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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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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 day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
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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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Rest is by no means a waste of time.
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