"A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work."
-John Lubbock
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"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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"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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"Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin."
-John Lubbock
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"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."
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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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"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
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"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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