John Lubbock Quotes

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

  John Lubbock

  Motivational, Happiness, Letting Go

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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.

  John Lubbock

  World, This World, Depends

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

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  Mind, Results, Circumstances

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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.

  John Lubbock

  Air, Secret, Mind

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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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• 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.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Teacher, Nature

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

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• Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them

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  Use, Faculty, Ability

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

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  Giving, Kind, Pleasure

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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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• 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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• 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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• Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous.

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  Mistake, Enemy, Wicked

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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 make nothing.

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  Mistake, Men, Too Much

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

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  Pain, Suffering, Possibility

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

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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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• We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

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  People, Worry, Anxiety

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

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

  John Lubbock

  Morning, Different, Looks

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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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• 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.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Reading, Teaching

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