John Lubbock Quotes - Page 3

• How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.

  John Lubbock

  Library, Littles, Cost

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• 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

  Canción, Primavera, Flor

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• Nuestro deber es creer aquello de lo que tenemos pruebas suficientes, y suspender nuestro juicio cuando no las tenemos.

  John Lubbock

  Believe, Judging, Judgment

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• Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

  John Lubbock

  Clever, Men, Industry

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• When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.

  John Lubbock

  Taken, Sleep, Air

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• A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid for in advance; false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.

  John Lubbock

  Silent, Pleasure, Heavy

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• Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.

  John Lubbock

  Cheerful, World, Brightness

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• 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

  Educación, Aprendizaje, Escuela

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• El arte entrena la mente a través del ojo, y el ojo a través de la mente. Así como el sol colorea las flores, el arte colorea la vida.

  John Lubbock

  Art, Flower, Eye

  John Lubbock (1913). "Los placeres de la vida"

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• If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.

  John Lubbock

  Duda, Si

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• A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

  John Lubbock

  Taken, Sea, Firsts

  John Lubbock (1913). "Los placeres de la vida"

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• Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.

  John Lubbock

  Men, Affectionate

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• We profit little by books we do not enjoy.

  John Lubbock

  Book, Littles, Profit

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• We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

  John Lubbock

  Wind, Bags, Treasure

  John Lubbock (1913). "Los placeres de la vida"

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• There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist

  John Lubbock

  Strong, Exercise, Temptation

  John Lubbock (1913). "Los placeres de la vida"

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• 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

  Blessing, Opportunity, Men

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• Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly instructive. Many naturalists consider that the early condition of the individual indicates that of the race,-that the best test of the affinities of a species are the stages through which it passes. So also it is in the case of man; the life of each individual is an epitome of the history of the race, and the gradual development of the child illustrates that of the species.

  John Lubbock

  Children, Science, Men

  Sir John Lubbock (1872). “Pre-historic Times: As Illustrated by Ancient Remains and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages”, p.570

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• 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

  Rain, Sunshine, Reality

  "The Use of Life" de John Lubbock, (Cap. IV), 1894.

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• The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.

  John Lubbock

  Ignorance, Rising, Veils

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• False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

  John Lubbock

  Happiness, Imperfect, Pleasure

  Sir John Lubbock (1909). “On Peace and Happiness”, London : Macmillan

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• Todos somos grandes terratenientes, si lo supiéramos. Lo que nos falta no es la tierra, sino el poder de disfrutarla. Además, esta gran herencia tiene la ventaja adicional de que no conlleva trabajo, no requiere gestión. El propietario tiene los problemas, pero el paisaje pertenece a todo el que tenga ojos para verlo.

  John Lubbock

  Eye, Land, Inheritance

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