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Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.
John Lubbock
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John Lubbock
Age: 79 †
Born: 1834
Born: April 30
Died: 1913
Died: May 28
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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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We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
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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 always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window.
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However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.
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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
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Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.
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Rest is by no means a waste of time.
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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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Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.
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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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If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.
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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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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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Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.
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There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist
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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
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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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