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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
Journalist
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Bloomington
Illinois
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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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Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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Good health! Whenever you go out of doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of your head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost drink in sunshine greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and never waste a minute thinking about your enemies.
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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
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The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
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The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
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Live truth instead of professing it.
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The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
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Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.
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Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.
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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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Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
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Be patient with the boys - you are dealing with soul-stuff.
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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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To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.
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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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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
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