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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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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
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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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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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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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When trouble comes, wise men take to their work weak men take to the woods.
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The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.
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All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.
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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.
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I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.
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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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Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
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The artist needs no religion beyond his work.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.
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The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
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A good front is half the battle in love or war.
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