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Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
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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A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.
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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
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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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Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
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Live truth instead of professing it.
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Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.
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The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
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What others say of me matters little what I myself say and do matters much.
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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 person born with an instinct for poverty.
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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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A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
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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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The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself and he wants others to be themselves, also.
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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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Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
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The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
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You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think.
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Life without absorbing occupation is hell joy consists in forgetting life.
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Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.
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