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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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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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False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
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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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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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Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.
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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 man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.
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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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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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Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.
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A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.
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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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Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.
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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
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There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist
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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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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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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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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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