John Lubbock Quotes

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• In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.

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  World, This World, Depends

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• A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

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  Motivational, Happiness, Letting Go

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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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  Inspirational, Success, Summer

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• What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

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  Inspirational, Being Happy, Attitude

  Sir John Lubbock (1897). “The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In”, p.2, Library of Alexandria

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• To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.

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  Happiness, Contribution

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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• Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.

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  Buying, Restraint, Wells

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• Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.

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  Mind, Results, Circumstances

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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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  Blessing, Trying, Blessing You

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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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  Education, Teacher, Appreciation

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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• Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.

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  Air, Secret, Mind

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• Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

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  Happiness, Life And Love, Violin

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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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  Education, Teacher, Nature

  "The Use of Life" by John Lubbock, (Ch. IV), 1894.

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• A kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

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  Giving, Kind, Pleasure

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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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  Romantic, Beauty, Beautiful

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• It always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window.

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  Rain, Weather, Looks

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of 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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  Believe, Merit

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• A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.

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  Good Friend, Men

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• Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.

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  Education, Memories, Children

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• Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.

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  Exercise, Brain, Mind

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• However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

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  Morning, Different, Looks

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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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  Love, Sympathy, Thoughtful

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• Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

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  Passion, Everyday, Battle

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• The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should have the opportunity of teaching itself. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten all he ever learned; while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew.

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  Education, Children, Hate

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• Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

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  Character, Personality Flaws

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• It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.

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  Happiness, People, Would Be

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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