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If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.
John Lubbock
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John Lubbock
Age: 79 †
Born: 1834
Born: April 30
Died: 1913
Died: May 28
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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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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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However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.
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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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Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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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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Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.
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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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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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