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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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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.
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God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.
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Enthusiasm is like having two right hands.
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The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
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A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
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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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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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Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
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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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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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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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Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
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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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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
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Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.
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There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved.
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I believe the Universe is planned for good.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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