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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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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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False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
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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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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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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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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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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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There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist
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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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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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Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.
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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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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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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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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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Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.
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Rest is by no means a waste of time.
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We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
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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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Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
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