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A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.
John Lubbock
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John Lubbock
Age: 79 †
Born: 1834
Born: April 30
Died: 1913
Died: May 28
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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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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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Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
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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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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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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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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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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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False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
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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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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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However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.
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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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