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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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Bloomington
Illinois
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The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid.
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Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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I believe in the Motherhood of God.
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The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.
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I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.
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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
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