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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
Elbert Hubbard
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He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
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There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved.
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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.
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Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.
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Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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Logic is one thing and commonsense another.
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There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been practised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet.
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Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire
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Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
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Growth is often a painful process.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.
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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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One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
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