"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."
-John Lubbock
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"A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work."
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"When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace."
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"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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"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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