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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
Elbert Hubbard
Ali Baba
Fra Elbertus
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One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.
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Live truth instead of professing it.
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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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God is good, there is no devil but fear.
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Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.
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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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Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.
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A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.
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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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It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.
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Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
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You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think.
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Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.
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The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.
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Art is nothing it's a way.
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Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
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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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I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
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