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We work to become, not to acquire.

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.
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The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.
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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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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.
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Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.
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I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.
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Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.
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War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.
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Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.
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Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.
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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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When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.
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