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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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A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.
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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
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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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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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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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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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Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.
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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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Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
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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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Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.
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Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
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