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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

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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Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
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To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.
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Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.
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To supply a thought is mental massage but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.
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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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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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Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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What others say of me matters little what I myself say and do matters much.
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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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