"We may sit in our library and yet……" — John Lubbock
"We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth."
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23 Quotes by John Lubbock
John Lubbock has 23 quotes on this site.
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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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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…
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some…
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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
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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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We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from…
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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have…
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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given…
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Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.
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All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as…
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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…
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