Rest is not idleness, and to lie...

Rest is not idleness, and to lie...

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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
The Use Of Life
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The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.

- John Lubbock

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

- John Lubbock

We profit little by books we do not enjoy.

- John Lubbock

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.

- John Lubbock

I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of Happiness as well as the Happiness of Duty; for we ought to be as cheerful as we can, if only because to be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.

- John Lubbock

If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.

- John Lubbock
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