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Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.
John Lubbock
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John Lubbock
Age: 79 †
Born: 1834
Born: April 30
Died: 1913
Died: May 28
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.
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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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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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Rest is by no means a waste of time.
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Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
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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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Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.
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If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.
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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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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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Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.
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There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist
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