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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

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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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It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.
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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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Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of 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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Grammar is the grave of letters.
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Habit: The great economizer of energy.
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Life without absorbing occupation is hell joy consists in forgetting life.
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Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
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What people need and what they want may be very different.
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The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
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The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
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I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
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A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.
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The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.
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Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.
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Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.
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People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
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The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.
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