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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.
John Lubbock
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John Lubbock
Age: 79 †
Born: 1834
Born: April 30
Died: 1913
Died: May 28
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.
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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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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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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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If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.
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A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid for in advance false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.
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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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