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A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.
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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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
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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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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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Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.
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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
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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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Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.
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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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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.
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Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.
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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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Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color 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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Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
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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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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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