101 Quotes by John Lubbock
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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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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
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If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
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When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
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If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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