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• Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.

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  Happiness, Life Happiness, Ought

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• We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee.

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  Miracle, Looks, Lord

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• Rest is by no means a waste of time.

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  Mean, Waste, Wasting Time

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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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• 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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• Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.

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  Minutes, Accounts

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• Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

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  Education, Reading, Teaching

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• The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.

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  Happiness, People, Would Be

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• Happy indeed is the naturalist: to him the seasons come round like old friends; to him the birds sing: as he walks along, the flowers stretch out from the hedges, or look up from the ground, and as each year fades away, he looks back on a fresh store of happy memories.

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  Memories, Flower, Years

  Sir John Lubbock (1897). “The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

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• 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 with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.

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  Horse, Mind, Contentment

  Sir John Lubbock (1904). “The beauties of nature and the wonders of the world we live in”

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• Do what you will, only do something.

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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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• 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 crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.

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  Mind, Needs, Crowds

  Sir John Lubbock (1909). “On Peace and Happiness”, London : Macmillan

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• Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.

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  Heart, Too Much, Discouraged

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

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  Travel, Book, Library

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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 some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me.

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  Nature, Thinking, Tree

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

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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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• Many a blessing has been recognized too late.

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  Blessing, Too Late, Late

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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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• 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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• A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

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  Friendship, Cheerful, Brightness

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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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  Wise, Education, Men

  John Lubbock (1896). “The Pleasures of Life”

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• Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.

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  Years, Purpose, Life Is

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

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• Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in spring, it lights the glowworm's lamp, it wakens the song of birds, and inspires the poet's lay. Even inanimate Nature seems to feel the spell, and flowers glow with the richest colours.

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  Song, Spring, Flower

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