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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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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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It is only life and love that give love and life.
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We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.
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Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.
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Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.
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Be patient with the boys - you are dealing with soul-stuff.
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A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
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The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
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A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
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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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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it 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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The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
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Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
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I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up
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There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.
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The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.
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Habit: The great economizer of energy.
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Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
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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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