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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Bloomington
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If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
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Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.
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A person born with an instinct for poverty.
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Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.
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You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.
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An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.
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A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.
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Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.
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Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.
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I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up
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Talent does things tolerably well genius does then intolerably better
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Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
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Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
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Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
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Life in abundance comes only through great love.
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Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
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All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.
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Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire
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Time is an illusion-to orators.
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