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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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

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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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When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.

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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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