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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.

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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.

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Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

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

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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.

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

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When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

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We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Statesman

Born: April 30th, 1834

Died: May 28th, 1913

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