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Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.
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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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Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.
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Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.
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It is only life and love that give love and life.
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If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
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A person born with an instinct for poverty.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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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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Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
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What people need and what they want may be very different.
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Talent does things tolerably well genius does then intolerably better
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Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
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Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.
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Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
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No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
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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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Grammar is the grave of letters.
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