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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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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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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
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If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.
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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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A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.
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Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
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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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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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Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.
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Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.
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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 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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Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.
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Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
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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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We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
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