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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
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Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
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You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.
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Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.
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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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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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Grammar is the grave of letters.
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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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It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.
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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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It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.
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War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.
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All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men all gentlemen all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.
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No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
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A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.
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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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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.
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