John Lubbock

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, PC (April 30, 1834 – May 28, 1913) was an English banker, politician, naturalist and archaeologist. He served as President of the Royal Statistical Society.

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• When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
  • The Pleasures of Life, vol. 1 (1887), ch. II: The Happiness of Duty

• 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.
  • The Use of Life (1894), ch. IV: Recreation

• Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time.
  • The Use of Life (1894), ch. IV: Recreation

• 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.
  • The Use of Life (1894), ch. IV: Recreation

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• In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.