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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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Illinois
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Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.
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If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost you can still call him vile names.
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Theology is Classified Superstition.
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One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community would actually redeem the world.
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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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The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.
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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
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The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.
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Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
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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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Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.
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What others say of me matters little what I myself say and do matters much.
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Growth is often a painful process.
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
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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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