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Art is not a thing it is a way.

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
Journalist
Philosopher
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Bloomington
Illinois
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Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.
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Good health! Whenever you go out of doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of your head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost drink in sunshine greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and never waste a minute thinking about your enemies.
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The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
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Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
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It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.
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Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.
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The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.
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It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
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An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
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Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!
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Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.
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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
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The cure for grief is motion.
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Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
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Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
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The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
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