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False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
John Lubbock
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John Lubbock
Age: 79 †
Born: 1834
Born: April 30
Died: 1913
Died: May 28
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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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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 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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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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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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Rest is by no means a waste of time.
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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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Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
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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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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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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
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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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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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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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If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.
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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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The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
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Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.
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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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