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We work to become, not to acquire.
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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The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself and he wants others to be themselves, also.
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Be patient with the boys - you are dealing with soul-stuff.
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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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Luck is tenacity of purpose.
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A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
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It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
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One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community would actually redeem the world.
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The man who has no problems is out of the game.
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If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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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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One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
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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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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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Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.
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Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.
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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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It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.
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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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