Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness
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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
I can but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the duty of happiness as well as the happiness of duty for we ought to be as bright and genial as we can, if only because to be cheerful ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.
John Lubbock
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.
John Lubbock
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
John Lubbock
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
John Lubbock
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