Tag: John Lubbock

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Work

John Lubbock | work

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

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Time

John Lubbock | time

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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peace

John Lubbock | peace

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

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Nature

John Lubbock | nature

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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Nature

John Lubbock | nature

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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happiness

John Lubbock | happiness

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

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education

John Lubbock | education

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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best

John Lubbock | best

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

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The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live in

Quote from John Lubbock, The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live in

What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. … In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them.

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The Use Of Life

Quote from John Lubbock, The Use Of Life

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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