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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

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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summers 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

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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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He who can be, and therefore is, anothers, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature. – Aristotle

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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. – Francis Bacon

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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. – Dag Hammarskjold

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