All John Lubbock Quotes
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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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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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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If we are ever in doubt about 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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Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
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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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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
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When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
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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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