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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
Elbert Hubbard
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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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A person born with an instinct for poverty.
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The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
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Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
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When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.
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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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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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Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors
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Time is an illusion-to orators.
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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
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It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
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God is good, there is no devil but fear.
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I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
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The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
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