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Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.

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John Lubbock
Age: 79 †
Born: 1834
Born: April 30
Died: 1913
Died: May 28
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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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We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
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Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
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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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Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.
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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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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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However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.
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Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.
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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
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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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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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