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Rest is by no means a waste of time.
John Lubbock
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John Lubbock
Age: 79 †
Born: 1834
Born: April 30
Died: 1913
Died: May 28
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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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Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
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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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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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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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Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.
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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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False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
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Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.
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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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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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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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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
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Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.
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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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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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Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.
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We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.
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Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.
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