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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.
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
Illinois
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I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
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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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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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What people need and what they want may be very different.
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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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Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.
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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
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There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved.
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I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.
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Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you
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All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.
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Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.
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