Sir John Lubbock

(648 votes)   Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

Sir John Lubbock
1834-1913, British Statesman, Banker, Naturalist

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(191 votes)   Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.

Sir John Lubbock
1834-1913, British Statesman, Banker, Naturalist

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(175 votes)   In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

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1834-1913, British Statesman, Banker, Naturalist

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(172 votes)   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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(134 votes)   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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(131 votes)   Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

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(95 votes)   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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(92 votes)   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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(91 votes)   What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

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(90 votes)   When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

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(89 votes)   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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(86 votes)   A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

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(86 votes)   Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

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(83 votes)   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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(81 votes)   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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