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Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

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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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An American religion: Work, play, breathe, bathe, study, live, laugh, and love.
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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!
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Your neighbor is the man who needs you.
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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.
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History: a collection of epitaphs.
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Victory a matter of staying power.
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Every life is its own excuse for being.
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Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown
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All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.
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Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.
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Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.
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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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We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
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Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
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Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
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All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.
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Real life is in love, laughter, and work.
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