John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury Quotes
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Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
It always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window.
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
The realities of Science have proved far more varied and surprising than the dreams of fiction.
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury