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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.
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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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
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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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Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.
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Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.
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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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Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.
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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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False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
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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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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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We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
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However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.
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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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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 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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Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.
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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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Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
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