{"author":"John Lubbock","author_id":"John+Lubbock","total_quotes":25,"quotes":[{"text":"If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.","author":"John Lubbock","tags":["advice","decisions","doubt","future","inspirational","planning","rule","science","tomorrow"],"id":159,"author_id":"John+Lubbock"},{"text":"A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.","author":"John Lubbock","tags":["advice","exhaustion","work","worry"],"id":20676,"author_id":"John+Lubbock"},{"text":"A poor woman from Manchester  on being taken to the seaside  is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.","author":"John Lubbock","tags":["sea"],"id":27052,"author_id":"John+Lubbock"},{"text":"In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is wanting.","author":"John Lubbock","tags":["advice","choice","inspirational","personality","time","truth","wanting","will"],"id":44417,"author_id":"John+Lubbock"},{"text":"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.","author":"John Lubbock","tags":["actions","advice","ambition","inspirational","kingdom","progress","rule"],"id":78609,"author_id":"John+Lubbock"},{"text":"What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them.","author":"John Lubbock","tags":["artists","botanists","farmer","flowers","fossils","game","geologists","inspirational","perspective","seeing","sight","sportsmen"],"id":93211,"author_id":"John+Lubbock"},{"text":"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.","author":"John Lubbock","tags":["mountain","sea","sky "],"id":129271,"author_id":"John+Lubbock"},{"text":"A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.","author":"John Lubbock","tags":["education","honesty","knowledge","learning","science","teach","wisdom","wise"],"id":151840,"author_id":"John+Lubbock"},{"text":"We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.","author":"John Lubbock","tags":["library","reading","travel"],"id":203491,"author_id":"John+Lubbock"},{"text":"The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; 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.","author":"John Lubbock","tags":["haven","heaven","hell","inspirational","motivational","personality","prison","punishment","repose","sanctuary","science","self-determination","solitude","value"],"id":254659,"author_id":"John+Lubbock"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}