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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.

» What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

» 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.

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

» 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.

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

» Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

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

» Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

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

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

» The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

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

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