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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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Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.
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No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
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No man ever did or can do a great work alone.
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Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.
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Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
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When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
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One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
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There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.
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Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.
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Men are only as great as they are kind.
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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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I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
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An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
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He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
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Every life is its own excuse for being.
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Be patient with the boys - you are dealing with soul-stuff.
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History: a collection of epitaphs.
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The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.
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