Author: John Lubbock

Quotes

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.

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

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

- John Lubbock

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

- John Lubbock

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.

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.

- John Lubbock

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

- John Lubbock

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

- John Lubbock

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