Quote by John Lubbock
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. - John Lubb

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. – John Lubbock

Other quotes by John Lubbock

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. – John Lubbock

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Education
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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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Nature
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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. – John Lubbock

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Learning
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Other Quotes from
Happiness
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In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world. – Bob Brown

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Happiness

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Happiness

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Happiness

Worldly wealth is the Devils bait and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. – Robert Burton

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Happiness

Random Quotes

I remember the first time I had sex – I kept the receipt. – Groucho Marx

Category:
Time

When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that its like the picked-on kid who has to become funny. – Scott Thompson

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funny

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. – Edward Gibbon

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Speaking

Cold beer & pizza are spiritual. – Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com (2008 tweet, @wildthyme)

Category:
Beer