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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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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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I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.
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Life is a compromise between fate and free will.
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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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Grammar is the grave of letters.
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We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.
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Life without absorbing occupation is hell joy consists in forgetting life.
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Unleash your TRAVEL BEAST .... explore the world. It's time to begin your next adventure! No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.
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One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community would actually redeem the world.
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Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
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All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men all gentlemen all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.
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Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.
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We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
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Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?
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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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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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