John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury - The Use Of Life (1894)

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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
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.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in spring, it lights the glowworm's lamp, it wakens the song of birds, and inspires the poet's lay. Even inanimate Nature seems to feel the spell, and flowers glow with the richest colours.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
We often hear of bad weather, but in reality no weather is bad. It is all delightful, though in different ways. Some weather may be bad for farmers or crops, but for man all kinds are good. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

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
It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury