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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.
John Lubbock
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John Lubbock
Age: 79 †
Born: 1834
Born: April 30
Died: 1913
Died: May 28
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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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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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Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.
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Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.
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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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We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee.
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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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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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Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
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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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The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
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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 man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.
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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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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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Rest is by no means a waste of time.
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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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Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.
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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
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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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