John Lubbock Quotes

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• What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
• 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…
• 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…
• A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
• Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
• We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
• Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
• Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
• The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
• Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.
• We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
• 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…
• 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…
• If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow…
• A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
• Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
• When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
• 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…
• In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking
• The whole value of solitude depends upon one's self; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of…

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