When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace. John Lubbock More Quotes by John Lubbock More Quotes From John Lubbock We are all great landed proprietors, if we only knew it. What we lack is not land, but the power to enjoy it. Moreover, this great inheritance has the additional advantage that it entails no labor, requires no management. The landlord has the trouble, but the landscape belongs to everyone who has eyes to see it. John Lubbock inheritancelandeye Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence. John Lubbock purposelife-isyears There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist John Lubbock strongtemptationexercise False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own. John Lubbock imperfectpleasurehappiness Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me. John Lubbock naturetreethinking 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 brightnesscheerfulworld It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong. John Lubbock would-behappinesspeople Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life. John Lubbock life-happinessoughthappiness Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged. John Lubbock discouragedtoo-muchheart 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 blessingopportunitymen Rest is by no means a waste of time. John Lubbock wasting-timewastemean The important is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish 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. John Lubbock gooddonedoubtwish
