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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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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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Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.
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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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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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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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It always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window.
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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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We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee.
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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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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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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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