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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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Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
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Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
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I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.
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Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
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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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A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
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Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
Elbert Hubbard
One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
Elbert Hubbard
Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.
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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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When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.
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When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.
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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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In God's great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner.
Elbert Hubbard
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
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Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
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Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.
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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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The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
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