Acts of heroism Quote by John Lubbock

“Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.”

John Lubbock

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Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

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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…

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There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.

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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…

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Many a blessing has been recognized too late.

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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 may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

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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…

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To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.

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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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“Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind . The children in our elementary schools are wearied by the mechanical act of writing, and the interminable intricacies of spelling; they are oppressed by columns of dates, by lists of…

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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…

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Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.

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This may not be the path for everyone. But the trust of which we speak is not an act of heroism. it is an act of surrender that makes the decision easier. It sounds unbelieveable, but I know it to be true. Leave the decision to God and you relieve yourself of the anxiety that comes from thinking that the…

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'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent lightnesses and contradictions - not the less difficult to achieve, because they have no earthly chronicle or audience - done every day in nooks and corners, and in little households,…

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