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Best Quotes by John Lubbock (Top 10)
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Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
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Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It 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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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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We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
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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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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.
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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
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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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Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.
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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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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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The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
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If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
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I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of Happiness as well as the Happiness of Duty; for we ought to be as cheerful as we can, if only because to be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.
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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is wanting.
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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
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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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Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.
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