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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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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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Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
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I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.
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The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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Play needs direction as well as work.
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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.
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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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The goal of evolution is self - conquest
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Life without absorbing occupation is hell joy consists in forgetting life.
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Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.
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An American religion: Work, play, breathe, bathe, study, live, laugh, and love.
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It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.
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It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.
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It is only life and love that give love and life.
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Men are only as great as they are kind.
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A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
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Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.
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