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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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Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.
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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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Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
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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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Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.
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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
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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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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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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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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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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.
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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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However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.
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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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We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
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A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.
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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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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
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