John Lubbock Quotes
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Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
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Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.
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A kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
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If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.
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Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me.
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There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist
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We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
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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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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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We are all great landed proprietors, if we only knew it. What we lack is not land, but the power to enjoy it. Moreover, this great inheritance has the additional advantage that it entails no labor, requires no management. The landlord has the trouble, but the landscape belongs to everyone who has eyes to see 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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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
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How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.
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Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
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Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.
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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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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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Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them
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Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.
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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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Many a blessing has been recognized too late.
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Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.
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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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A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.
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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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Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly instructive. Many naturalists consider that the early condition of the individual indicates that of the race,-that the best test of the affinities of a species are the stages through which it passes. So also it is in the case of man; the life of each individual is an epitome of the history of the race, and the gradual development of the child illustrates that of the species.
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However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.
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Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.
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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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We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
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