"John Lubbock" is the name of:

*Sir John Lubbock, 1st Baronet (1744–1816)

*Sir John Lubbock, 2nd Baronet (1774–1840), English banker

*Sir John Lubbock, 3rd Baronet (1803–1865), English banker, barrister, mathematician and astronomer

*John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913), English banker, politician, naturalist and archaeologist

*John Lubbock, 2nd Baron Avebury (1858–1929), English aristocrat and banker

*John Lubbock, 3rd Baron Avebury (1915–1971), English peer

* John Lubbock (conductor), founder and conductor of the Orchestra of St John's, Smith Square

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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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If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.

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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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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

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The whole value of solitude depends upon one's self; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.

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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 sky, is by no means a waste of time.

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Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

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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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To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being.

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