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Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Illinois
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A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.
Elbert Hubbard
The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
Elbert Hubbard
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Elbert Hubbard
He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
Elbert Hubbard
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.
Elbert Hubbard
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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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
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Men are only as great as they are kind.
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Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you
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The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.
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Nothing is permanent but change.
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Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
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If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.
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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.
Elbert Hubbard
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 poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.
Elbert Hubbard
One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
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