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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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False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
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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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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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Rest is by no means a waste of time.
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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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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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Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.
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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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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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There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist
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We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
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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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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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Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
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Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.
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Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
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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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Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.
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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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